hi, there!
Can we enable using '$' in usernames in pw?
The patch is attached.
Other variant is to enable using '$' only at end of user name.
/fjoe
Index: pw_user.c
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RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -p -r1.51 pw_user.c
--- pw_user.c 24 Jun 2002 11:33:17 -0000 1.51
+++ pw_user.c 23 Jan 2003 20:01:46 -0000
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ char *
pw_checkname(u_char *name, int gecos)
{
int l = 0;
- char const *notch = gecos ? ":!@" : " ,\t:+&#%$^()!@~*?<>=|\\/\"";
+ char const *notch = gecos ? ":!@" : " ,\t:+&#%^()!@~*?<>=|\\/\"";
while (name[l]) {
if (strchr(notch, name[l]) != NULL || name[l] < ' ' || name[l] == 127
||
