Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:03:18 +0100 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@masternet.it> To: philk@rotfl.com.au (Phil Kernick) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw and adduser different checks ? Message-ID: <6.1.2.0.2.20041111090133.01f1fdc0@83.149.160.121> In-Reply-To: <20041111075449.9608874599@mail.rotfl.com.au> References: <6.1.2.0.2.20041111082523.01f19c40@83.149.160.120> <20041111075449.9608874599@mail.rotfl.com.au>
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At 08.54 11/11/2004, Phil Kernick wrote: >> /usr/sbin/pw useradd -ntest -ctest@test.com -d/home/test -g1000 -s/bin/sh >> -u1000 >> pw: invalid character `@' at position 4 in gecos field >> >> Who is right of both the program ? :-) >> >> IMHO I find usefull to have the @ in the gecos field because it is an easy >> way to associate login <-> email in multidomain enviroment. >> But probably there is some drawback I am not aware of ... >> Any explanation ? > >The problem is pw being unreasonably restrictive. > >In the same way, you can't use pw to add a user with a $ in their name, >which is necessary for samba. If having such chars is not an hazard or a risk why some committer don't modify pw to let it to use them ? Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://utenti.gufi.org/~gmarco/
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