Juli Mallett wrote:
> > The '$' is a pain.  None of the examples in the original post
> > would have worked, because the '$' was not '\$', and the shell
> > would have blown chunks over the "variable expansion".
> 
> Your foundation is flawed, we allow $ in passwd just fine, and
> the only problem here is whether a pw should let someone do
> something we support which they might need to do.

Apply the patch.

Then try to add a user with a trailing "$" via adduser(1);  Note
the failure.

-- Terry

To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Reply via email to