Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 21:16:10 GMT From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, Chris Byrnes <chris@awww.jeah.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Removing user with "-" in username Message-ID: <20001023.21161000@bartequi.ottodomain.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231540020.65525-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 10/23/00, 8:41:16 PM, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> wrote regarding Re: Removing user with "-" in username: > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Chris Byrnes wrote: > >awww# rmuser -y irc-argentina > >Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only. > > > >Ugh. Foo. Feh. > > > >I remember a lengthy discussion about this awhile back, but > >can't seem to find the archive. > Consensus was that rmuser should remove any username that adduser > allowed to be created. There was talk of fixing this. Then people > jetted off to BSDCon. The fix is, learn how to use vipw, edit > /etc/group, and rm -rf an old home directory. =3D) Dear Brandon Valentine and Chris Byrnes, The following letter from Warner Losh is from my personal (local) archives, reposted for your convenience. <blockquote> Index: rmuser.perl =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D RCS file: /home/imp/FreeBSD/CVS/src/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.perl,v retrieving revision 1.10 diff -u -r1.10 rmuser.perl --- rmuser.perl 2000/03/14 14:27:34 1.10 +++ rmuser.perl 2000/10/09 18:00:58 @@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ if ($#ARGV =3D=3D 0) { # Username was given as a parameter $login_name =3D pop(@ARGV); - die "Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only.\n" - if ($login_name !~ /^[a-zA-Z0-9_]\w*$/); + die "Sorry, login name must not contain colons (:).\n" + if ($login_name =3D~ /:/); } else { if ($affirm) { print STDERR "${whoami}: Error: -y option given without username!\n"; Nuff said? Warner </blockquote> Best regards, Salvo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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