Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:40:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw Message-ID: <200210141240.g9ECeUa3009724@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20020909110403.GA45152@krion>
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Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net> wrote: > 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 think it's not a good idea, because "+" characters have a special meaning to some programs, for example sendmail. So it's probably a feature that pw rejects it, not a bug. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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