Bug 1139318
| Summary: | useradd allows usernames that break many basic tools | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | Marcel Kolaja <mkolaja> |
| Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Tomas Mraz <tmraz> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2014-09-10 13:48:46 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Marcel Kolaja
2014-09-08 16:04:27 UTC
I do not think we should change this behavior in already released RHEL. In general the UNIX philosophy is that the user is allowed to shoot himself into his foot with the UNIX commands. :) However I agree that all numeric user names should be disallowed in Fedora and future major RHEL releases. |