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