Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:00:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH] Message-ID: <200110111600.f9BG02O62523@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/31049; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
To: "Yar Tikhiy" <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>,
<freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:
Subject: Re: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH]
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:51:36 -0700
On Thursday 11 October 2001 08:11 am, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Could you quote POSIX on the characters allowed in usernames?
> What characters are allowed? This question has to do with the fact
> that "adduser" and "pw" use inconsistent algorithms of validating a
> username,
> so I'd like to fix both.
This is grom Garrett:
From XBDd6 section 3.426 says:
User Name
A string that is used to identify a user; see also Section
3.424 (on page 90). To be portable across systems conforming
to IEEE Std 1003.1-200x, the value is composed of characters
from the portable filename character set. The hyphen should
not be used as the first character of a portable user name.
- JimP
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