This one time, at band camp, Milan Bouchet-Valat said: > I don't think there's a reason not to allow usernames to contain dots > (.), as they are also allowed to contain underscores (_) and dashes (-). > useradd accepts this. > > Attached is a patch that makes dots be allowed just as other special > chars. One could also add the point in this line in /etc/adduser.conf: > #NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$" > but providing a patch for that makes the change harder to perform! ;-) > > > This fix would be appreciated for the gnome-system-tools, because > currently users-admin says dots are accepted, and this is false on > Debian. Saying dots are not allowed would be an issue because other > platforms allow for them, which means Debian should carry a specific > patch...
- $configref->{"name_regex"} = "^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$";
- $configref->{"name_regex_system"} = "^[A-Za-z][-A-Za-z0-9_]*\$";
+ $configref->{"name_regex"} = "^[a-z][-a-z0-9_.]*\$";
+ $configref->{"name_regex_system"} = "^[A-Za-z][-A-Za-z0-9_.]*\$";
That's a regex, so a bare . is almost certainly not what you want there.
Why does users-admin use adduser instead of useradd? It's not that
it shouldn't, but adduser is primarily designed as a policy compliant
method for maintainers to interface in a policy compliant way with user
management in maintainer scripts - extending it to be a general purpose
user management script for all manner of environments isn't what it's
aimed at, and I'm not convinced it will be a good thing to make it
general purpose. I think before changing the naming policy of adduser,
it does make sense to stop for a moment and check if you're using the
right tool for the job.
Cheers,
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