On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 11:12 +0400, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: > > 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.
Do you have a suggestion? Currently it is: nslcd: [8b4567] <passwd="gq"> "gq": invalid user name which means that it considers gq an invalid user name. > 2nd: why do you think one letter username should be disallowed? I cant > remember such restriction in POSIX. I don't think there is a minimum length in POSIX either. Supporting user names with one character however makes the regular expression overly complicated. -- -- arthur - [email protected] - http://people.debian.org/~adejong --
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