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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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
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=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
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