>Number: 152084
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: pw(8) does not allow @ or ! in gecos
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 09 18:30:11 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Jan Schaumann
>Release:
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
pw(8) does not allow you to add a user with a ! or a @ in the gecos field. I
have not been able to find any standard mentioning these as invalid characters,
nor do various other unix flavors implement this restriction.
>How-To-Repeat:
pw user add -n name -u uid -g gid -d dir -s shell -c"Something with an @ in it"
>Fix:
--- pw_user.c.orig Tue Nov 9 10:22:10 2010
+++ pw_user.c Tue Nov 9 10:24:01 2010
@@ -1172,7 +1172,7 @@
reject = 0;
if (gecos) {
/* See if the name is valid as a gecos (comment) field. */
- badchars = ":!@";
+ badchars = ":";
showtype = "gecos field";
} else {
/* See if the name is valid as a userid or group. */
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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