Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 13:40:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH] Message-ID: <200110042040.f94KeaV45606@snoopy.fan.fa.disney.com>
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>Number: 31049
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH]
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 04 13:50:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jim Pirzyk
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD snoopy 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #2: Fri Sep 21 11:16:23 PDT 2001 root@snoopy:/auto/roy/dist/pub/FreeBSD/4.4-RELEASE/sys/compile/UP_WORKSTATION i386
>Description:
You cannot add a user account with a '.' in it even though a '.' is a
valid login character per POSIX (XBDd6 section 3.426)
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- adduser.perl.orig Mon Jul 30 16:56:48 2001
+++ adduser.perl Thu Oct 4 13:36:51 2001
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
local($name);
while(1) {
- $name = &confirm_list("Enter username", 1, "a-z0-9_-", "");
+ $name = &confirm_list("Enter username", 1, "a-z0-9_-.", "");
if (length($name) > 16) {
warn "Username is longer than 16 chars\a\n";
next;
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
sub new_users_name_valid {
local($name) = @_;
- if ($name !~ /^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_\-]*$/ || $name eq "a-z0-9_-") {
+ if ($name !~ /^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_\-\.]*$/ || $name eq "a-z0-9_-.") {
warn "Wrong username. " .
"Please use only lowercase characters or digits\a\n";
return 0;
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