Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:24:32 +0200 Arthur de Jong <[email protected]> wrote:
> retitle 620235 problems with short usernames > tags 620235 + pending > thanks > > On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 14:50 +0400, Alexander Gerasiov wrote: > > Today nslcd upgraded to 0.8.2 and I catched the following bug. > > > > It fails to resolve username 'gq' in ldap. Other users works fine. > > Looks like it doesn't look in ldap at all: > > > > nslcd: [8b4567] DEBUG: connection from pid=8154 uid=0 gid=0 > > nslcd: [8b4567] <passwd="gq"> "gq": invalid user name > > > > Have no time to investigate it deeper, so had to rollback to > > previous version. > > The cause of this problem is the new regular expression based checks > for valid usernames. It currently rejects usernames of less than three > characters. This will be fixed in the next release (the minimum will > be two then). Well, first I suggest you to make error message more informative. 2nd: why do you think one letter username should be disallowed? I cant remember such restriction in POSIX. > > A workaround is to put this in /etc/nslcd.conf: > > validnames /^[a-z0-9._@$][a-z0-9._@$ \\~-]*[a-z0-9._@$~-]$/i I'll wait for the next version =) -- Best regards, Alexander GQ Gerasiov Contacts: e-mail: [email protected] Jabber: [email protected] Homepage: http://gq.net.ru ICQ: 7272757 PGP fingerprint: 04B5 9D90 DF7C C2AB CD49 BAEA CA87 E9E8 2AAC 33F1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
