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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:17:47 -0600
From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>
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Subject: Re: pw not accepting @-sign
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> Is it possible to make pw accept @-signs in the gecos/description
> field?

Look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c, around line 1210, near the
beginning of the pw_checkname() function, you'll see something that
looks like:

  char const *notch = gecos ? ":!@" : " ,\t:+&#%$^()!@~*?<>=|\\/\"";

The three characters in the first string (':', '!', and '@') are the
printable characters not allowed in GECOS fields.  Remove the '@' and
rebuild, and you're in business.

Note that I don't know why '@' is outlawed in GECOS fields in the
first place, so I have no idea if this will impact the system.

Lucas

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