Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 12:00:52 -0800 From: "Faisal Gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com> To: <lucas@slb.to>, "Dan Larsson" <dl@tyfon.net> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pw not accepting @-sign Message-ID: <001f01c0b954$22c214f0$04036b83@terminal4> References: <20010329114525.F17737-100000@hq1.tyfon.net> <20010329151747.B26465@billygoat.slb.to>
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Well i also tried adduser utility to name a user name with @ caracter but it
is also not working ...
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Lucas Bergman" <lucas@slb.to>
To: "Dan Larsson" <dl@tyfon.net>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: pw not accepting @-sign
> > Is it possible to make pw accept @-signs in the gecos/description
> > field?
>
> Look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c, around line 1210, near the
> beginning of the pw_checkname() function, you'll see something that
> looks like:
>
> char const *notch = gecos ? ":!@" : " ,\t:+&#%$^()!@~*?<>=|\\/\"";
>
> 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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