On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:42:41PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Package: passwd > Version: 1:4.0.16-2 > Severity: normal > Tag: patch > > If I read the description correctly then a $ sign is premitted from the 2nd > position just > like the other permitted characters.
No, it is not. $ is only allowed at the last position. The next release man page should contain: It is usually recommended to only use usernames that begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, and are only followed by lower case let‐ ters, digits, underscores, dashes, and optionally terminated by a dol‐ lar sign. In regular expression terms: ^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]?$ On De‐ bian, the only constraints are that usernames must neither start with a dash (’-’) nor contain a colon (’:’) or an end of line (’\n’). Does it look OK to you? Kind Regards, -- Nekral
