Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:17:47 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to> To: Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw not accepting @-sign Message-ID: <20010329151747.B26465@billygoat.slb.to> In-Reply-To: <20010329114525.F17737-100000@hq1.tyfon.net>; from dl@tyfon.net on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:46:51AM %2B0200 References: <20010329114525.F17737-100000@hq1.tyfon.net>
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> Is it possible to make pw accept @-signs in the gecos/description
> field?
Look at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c, around line 1210, near the
beginning of the pw_checkname() function, you'll see something that
looks like:
char const *notch = gecos ? ":!@" : " ,\t:+&#%$^()!@~*?<>=|\\/\"";
The three characters in the first string (':', '!', and '@') are the
printable characters not allowed in GECOS fields. Remove the '@' and
rebuild, and you're in business.
Note that I don't know why '@' is outlawed in GECOS fields in the
first place, so I have no idea if this will impact the system.
Lucas
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