From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 14 5:12:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D79B37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from infinity.aesredfish.net (ns1.aesredfish.net [65.168.0.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFFA43EAA for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (mhope-dhcp-65-168-1-181.dashfast.com [65.168.1.181]) by infinity.aesredfish.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g9ECAeW32456; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:10:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3DAAB623.7020708@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 08:18:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirill Ponomarew Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw References: <20020909110403.GA45152@krion> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Could you please correct the date on your computer] Kirill Ponomarew wrote: > Hello, > > just tested "pw" and noticed that if I add user "ku+ku" > > su-2.05# pw useradd ki+ki > pw: invalid character `+' in field > > Can we fix this error ? I have to add much users with "+" in there > usernames. I don't think this is an "error". The "+" symbol has special meaning in the passwd file, and I don't think it would be wise to allow user names with a + in them. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message