On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:51:18 +0100, Christophe Chisogne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Marc Haber a écrit :
>> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable
>> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The
>> --force-badname option will change the regexp to a ha
Marc Haber a écrit :
By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable
regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The
--force-badname option will change the regexp to a hardcoded
^[-\._A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$, allowing users to happily hang themselves.
To use Samba as a w
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 00:31:13 +0100, Michelle Konzack
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It works since more then 4 years :-)
For you.
Greeting
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Am 2005-02-08 23:50:07, schrieb Andreas Rottmann:
> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It works since WOODY...
> > I can not call it "recently".
> >
> Well, if you did, you could argue that Debian releases frequently ;)
OK, if you see it from this side :-)
It works since more then 4
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Am 2005-02-05 17:21:28, schrieb Bernd Eckenfels:
>
>> Why not make it an configurable RE? You cant avoid ppl breaking their
>> systems, but you can help them to enforce their policy. For example : may be
>> fine on non-passwd systems (however some too
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:06:17 +0200, Petri Latvala
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable
>> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The
>> --force-badname option will
On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 12:15 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable
> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The
> --force-badname option will change the regexp to a hardcoded
> ^[-\._A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$, allowing users to happ
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 12:31:39 +0100, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The current --force-badname check is /^[A-Za-z_][-_A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$/.
>Wouldn't it make more sense to add the "." just to the second
>character class?
That one wouldn't solve the "I want my usernames to start with a
digi
* Marc Haber:
> By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable
> regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The
> --force-badname option will change the regexp to a hardcoded
> ^[-\._A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$, allowing users to happily hang themselves. This
> gives the
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:38:36 +0100, Marc Haber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
>rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
>another wants usernames to start with numbers.
>
>May I ask for your opinion bef
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 02:47:37PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Please don't give people this much rope to hang themselves with *so easily*.
Why dont u think they dont change the name of the user in the passwd?!
I dont think it is needed to play big daddy microsoft here. If somebod
Am 2005-02-05 11:13:50, schrieb Steve Greenland:
> According the SUS section that Kurt quoted, leading digits are equally
> acceptable. I think it might be reasonable to accept leading digits when
> there is at least one non-digit in the name.
Agreed.
> Steve
Greetings
Michelle
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Am 2005-02-05 17:21:28, schrieb Bernd Eckenfels:
> Why not make it an configurable RE? You cant avoid ppl breaking their
> systems, but you can help them to enforce their policy. For example : may be
> fine on non-passwd systems (however some tools will have trouble with that).
> chown was recentl
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:47:37 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Because people will use it to enable users with start with a digit, since
> >they certainly don't know better or they would never have asked for this.
>
> Right n
* Marc Haber:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:21:28 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Why not make it an configurable RE?
>
> I am quite reluctant with a so big change in a base package, ranking
> at #1 in popcon, so soon before sarge release.
The check is on a very common code path.
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 14:47:37 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Because people will use it to enable users with start with a digit, since
>they certainly don't know better or they would never have asked for this.
Right now, we have users patching the adduser "binary" to
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:21:28 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Why not make it an configurable RE?
I am quite reluctant with a so big change in a base package, ranking
at #1 in popcon, so soon before sarge release.
Greetings
Marc
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On 05-Feb-05, 10:47 (CST), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Because '.' is POSIX, thus valid. And not accepting the '.' is a damn
> bug in any POSIX-compliant utility.
According the SUS section that Kurt quoted, leading digits are equally
acceptable. I think it might
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> >> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> >> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> >> another wan
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
>> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
>> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
>> another wants usernames to start with numbers.
>
> Allowing the
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 16:39 +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> IMHO even the dot is, eh, difficult. Consider a chown user.group file.
if (no_such_username)
{
chown();
chgrp();
}
else
{
chown();
}
If there is such an username and the user meant to change both user and
group, it's his own fault for not
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050205 16:35]:
> On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> > adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> > rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> > another wants usernames to start with
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> another wants usernames to start with numbers.
Allowing the dot is ok. I do think that usernames starting with
[Marc Haber]
> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> another wants usernames to start with numbers.
>
> May I ask for your opinion before denying or following the requests?
Personally, I pr
Am 2005-02-05 14:18:32, schrieb Wim De Smet:
> I think the discussion came up earlier here. IIRC the conclusion was
> that it could be relaxed for .'s (don't know about numbers). Although
> it can cause confusion with chown a.b format. But chown should now be
> patched to behave correctly on chown
On Sath, 2005-02-05 at 13:38 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> another wants usernames to start with numbers.
>
> May I ask for your opinion before de
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:38:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> another wants usernames to start with numbers.
>
> May I ask for your opinion bef
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:38:36PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> another wants usernames to start with numbers.
>
> May I ask for your opinion bef
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