On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 07:26:46AM +0200, Martin Schmitt wrote:
> Brian Candler schrieb:
> The problem wasn't that I couldn't authenticate but that I wasn't able
> to enter the username into userdb in the first place, using the userdb tool:
>
> # userdb "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" set home=/var/vmail/example.com/foo uid=500
> gid=500
> # userdb "bar%example.com" set home=/var/vmail/example.com/bar uid=500
> gid=500
> Invalid name: bar%example.com
See userdb/userdb.pl[.in]
die "Invalid name: $name\n"
unless $name =~ /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/;
Personally I think this is a tad restrictive. Just add % into there.
> This is cool. But why does the userdb tool try to keep me from entering
> that user? Am I playing against some rule? Will I lose % sign support in
> some later version?
AFAIK there's no particular reason why usernames can't contain any
characters at all, except perhaps for spaces. In IMAP,
x LOGIN username password
relies on a space between the username and password. Some fields in
the authdaemon protocol are space-separated too, I believe.
Regards,
Brian.
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