Bug 104179
| Summary: | useradd does not allow dots in the username | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Rishi Gangoly <rishi> | ||||
| Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | jeff, rishi | ||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:58:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 94389 [details]
Patch for chkname.c
This is a patch that "Torsten Finke" created and sent to me via e-mail.
Notes from the author...
- there is absolutely no warranty;
;-)
I am also experiencing this problem. Have you tested against the beta of RHES AS 3.0? I have a customer who just went live and has 6,000 users on AS 2.1. Every username has a . in it. If this problem exists in AS 3.0, that will preclude any future upgrades, without customizing shadow_utils. The patch #94389 does not work. See bug #89205 for better solution. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89205 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux) Description of problem: useradd does not allow dots in the username. See the error it gives. # useradd rishi.g useradd: invalid user name 'rishi.g' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.3-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. useradd abc.xyz Actual Results: useradd: invalid user name 'abc.xyz' Expected Results: it should have returned to the prompt without an error and created the user in the system. Additional info: I've posted this pub on a newsgroup. See the thread for responses to it. http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1e6d1789.0309050810.45e1cf51%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fsafe%3Dimages%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26as_uauthors%3Drishi%40theargoncompany.com%26lr%3D%26hl%3Den Another nice person gave me a patch for the file 'chkname.c' that is buggy. I would be happy to sent the patch for this program.