From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 14 5:40:36 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 142DC37B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:40:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAFC43EB3 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 05:40:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9ECeUmC009725 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:40:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9ECeUa3009724; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:40:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:40:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200210141240.g9ECeUa3009724@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw In-Reply-To: <20020909110403.GA45152@krion> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.6-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Kirill Ponomarew 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