Roland Mainz <[email protected]> wrote: > I would give this case (if I could) a +1 with two minor changes: > 1. "useradd" should clamp the string to 32bytes but _validate_ that > the input username doesn't get any multibyte characters cut-off in the > middle.
As we are in the 21st century, we could even support longer names. The 32 char limit is from POSIX.1-1988. > 2. "useradd" should print a warning if non-ASCII characters (e.g. > umlauts in ISO 8859-1/15) or multibyte characters are used unless a > specific option is provided (e.g. -W) > This is easy to do... if you don't have time I can volunteer to do > this modification. POSIX explicitly permits non-US-ascii login names. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-arc mailing list [email protected]
