From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 02:26:13 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B072DCF; Thu, 29 May 2014 02:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org (svn.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:2068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 589952E56; Thu, 29 May 2014 02:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svn.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.70]) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s4T2QDbC010052; Thu, 29 May 2014 02:26:13 GMT (envelope-from wblock@svn.freebsd.org) Received: (from wblock@localhost) by svn.freebsd.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s4T2QD8E010051; Thu, 29 May 2014 02:26:13 GMT (envelope-from wblock@svn.freebsd.org) Message-Id: <201405290226.s4T2QD8E010051@svn.freebsd.org> From: Warren Block Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 02:26:13 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r266828 - head/share/man/man5 X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 02:26:13 -0000 Author: wblock (doc committer) Date: Thu May 29 02:26:12 2014 New Revision: 266828 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266828 Log: Correct the description of characters allowed. Based on pw_checkname in usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c. Modified version of patch submitted by venture37. PR: docs/47594 Submitted by: Fernando Schapachnik , venture37 Reviewed by: allanjude, bcr, brueffer (on phabricator) MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Modified: head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Thu May 29 01:42:22 2014 (r266827) +++ head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Thu May 29 02:26:12 2014 (r266828) @@ -125,19 +125,29 @@ Routines that manipulate these files will often return only one of the multiple entries, and that one by random selection. .Pp -The login name must never begin with a hyphen -.Pq Ql - ; -also, it is strongly -suggested that neither upper-case characters or dots -.Pq Ql \&. -be part -of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. +The login name must not begin with a hyphen +.Pq Ql \&- , +and cannot contain 8-bit characters, tabs or spaces, or any of these +symbols: +.Ql \&,:+&#%^\&(\&)!@~*?<>=|\e\\&/" . +The dollar symbol +.Pq Ql \&$ +is allowed only as the last character for use with Samba. No field may contain a colon .Pq Ql \&: as this has been used historically to separate the fields in the user database. .Pp +Case is significant. +Login names +.Ql Lrrr +and +.Ql lrrr +represent different users. +Be aware of this when interoperating with systems that do not have +case-sensitive login names. +.Pp In the .Nm master.passwd file,