From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 23 13:10: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781F837B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:10:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A03B43E4A for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:10:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18bobf-0008Cn-00; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:09:51 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru ([193.124.215.97] ident=root) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18bobf-0008CQ-00; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:09:51 +0600 Received: from iclub.nsu.ru (fjoe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0NL9hRV038440; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:09:43 +0600 (NS) (envelope-from fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru) Received: (from fjoe@localhost) by iclub.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0NL9gTn038439; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:09:42 +0600 (NS) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 03:09:42 +0600 From: Max Khon To: Craig Rodrigues Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw Message-ID: <20030124030942.A37794@iclub.nsu.ru> References: <20030124022538.C36624@iclub.nsu.ru> <20030123205418.GA41199@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030123205418.GA41199@attbi.com>; from rodrigc@attbi.com on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:54:18PM -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.43 X-Envelope-To: rodrigc@attbi.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, there! On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 03:54:18PM -0500, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > Can we enable using '$' in usernames in pw? > > The patch is attached. > > The same patch was submitted here by David Chapman: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1059329+1062195+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-current/20021201.freebsd-current > > See the long discussion thread that followed. most messages were related to adduser.pl. adduser.pl has gone and adduser.sh now uses pw directly as for login class and group names -- there is nothing wrong with '$' in them but if anyone would be uncomfortable with it why not commit the patch that someone (Terry?) suggested that filters out '$' from login class and group names? /fjoe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message