The following reply was made to PR docs/47594; it has been noted by GNATS. From: venture37 <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Cc: Subject: Re: docs/47594: [patch] passwd(5) incorrectly states allowed username and group syntax Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 07:19:31 +0100
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070708080302060506070403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Attached is a diff which applies to -HEAD (r266021) Checked contents of badchars in pw_checkname(), usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c to see if the list is still correct. --------------070708080302060506070403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; name="passwd.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="passwd.txt" Index: share/man/man5/passwd.5 =================================================================== --- share/man/man5/passwd.5 (revision 266021) +++ share/man/man5/passwd.5 (working copy) @@ -126,8 +126,21 @@ entries, and that one by random selection. .Pp The login name must never begin with a hyphen -.Pq Ql - ; -also, it is strongly +.Pq Ql \&- +and should not contain 8-bit characters, neither tab nor spaces, colons +.Pq Ql \&: , +quotes +.Pq Ql \&" , +mathematical and comparison operators +.Pq Ql \&+*-%^<>=# , +parenthesis +.Pq Ql \&() , +and various punctuation and other symbols +.Pq Ql \&,&$!@~?|\[rs]/ . +As a special case to help Samba users, the dollar symbol +.Pq Ql \&$ +is allowed as the last character. +Also, it is strongly suggested that neither upper-case characters or dots .Pq Ql \&. be part --------------070708080302060506070403-- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
