Author: wblock (doc committer) Date: Thu Jun 5 01:52:20 2014 New Revision: 267088 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/267088
Log: MFC r266828: Correct the description of characters allowed. Based on pw_checkname in usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c. Modified version of patch submitted by venture37. Approved by: re (gjb) Modified: stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Directory Properties: stable/9/share/man/man5/ (props changed) Modified: stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5 ============================================================================== --- stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Thu Jun 5 01:20:25 2014 (r267087) +++ stable/9/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Thu Jun 5 01:52:20 2014 (r267088) @@ -129,19 +129,29 @@ Routines that manipulate these files will often return only one of the multiple entries, and that one by random selection. .Pp -The login name must never begin with a hyphen -.Pq Ql - ; -also, it is strongly -suggested that neither upper-case characters or dots -.Pq Ql \&. -be part -of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. +The login name must not begin with a hyphen +.Pq Ql \&- , +and cannot contain 8-bit characters, tabs or spaces, or any of these +symbols: +.Ql \&,:+&#%^\&(\&)!@~*?<>=|\e\\&/" . +The dollar symbol +.Pq Ql \&$ +is allowed only as the last character for use with Samba. No field may contain a colon .Pq Ql \&: as this has been used historically to separate the fields in the user database. .Pp +Case is significant. +Login names +.Ql Lrrr +and +.Ql lrrr +represent different users. +Be aware of this when interoperating with systems that do not have +case-sensitive login names. +.Pp In the .Nm master.passwd file, _______________________________________________ svn-src-stable-9@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-stable-9 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-stable-9-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
