Hi,
I noticed that I can't create login name containing a '.' (dot)
character (e.g. firstname.lastname). I stumbled upon this problem when I
needed to upgrade an older PLD Samba server where accounts where all
created as firstname.lastname. So, I ended up patching the shadow
package to allow dot in logins and use it instead of the PLD/ac default
shadow pkg.
What about allowing the dot character by default in the shadow package ?
Here is the good_name() function used by Fedora :
static int good_name (const char *name)
{
/*
* User/group names must match gnu e-regex:
* [a-zA-Z0-9_.][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{0,30}[a-zA-Z0-9_.$-]?
*
* as a non-POSIX, extension, allow "$" as the last char for
* sake of Samba 3.x "add machine script"
*/
if (!*name || !((*name >= 'a' && *name <= 'z')
|| (*name >= 'A' && *name <= 'Z')
|| (*name >= '0' && *name <= '9')
|| *name == '_' || *name == '.'))
return 0;
while (*++name) {
if (!( (*name >= 'a' && *name <= 'z')
|| (*name >= 'A' && *name <= 'Z')
|| (*name >= '0' && *name <= '9')
|| *name == '_' || *name == '.' || *name == '-'
|| (*name == '$' && *(name + 1) == '\0')))
return 0;
}
return 1;
}
Regards,
Jérôme
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