Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 20:59:51 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Juli Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pw_user.c change for samba Message-ID: <00a601c2968a$38f48f40$fe01a8c0@dwcjr> References: <20021127192126.GA31706@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE52B70.44402B98@mindspring.com> <20021127203401.GA35573@leviathan.inethouston.net> <3DE5315A.FC6D59B@mindspring.com> <20021127142348.A60606@FreeBSD.org> <3DE585AA.39584D8E@mindspring.com>
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> > > The '$' is a pain. None of the examples in the original post > > > would have worked, because the '$' was not '\$', and the shell > > > would have blown chunks over the "variable expansion". > > > > Your foundation is flawed, we allow $ in passwd just fine, and > > the only problem here is whether a pw should let someone do > > something we support which they might need to do. > > Apply the patch. > > Then try to add a user with a trailing "$" via adduser(1); Note > the failure. I think NAKAJI Hiroyuki pointed out that adduser has nothing to do with pw_user and if you add usernameregexp = '^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_-]*[a-z0-9_$-]$' to /etc/adduser.conf adduser will then allow $'s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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