Bug 129480
| Summary: | Unable to handle '.' or any other punctuation in usernames | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mike Hawkstarrr <mike.hoxter> |
| Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-23 19:12:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Please help me to understand why this bug still persists ... How many bug reports will be filed before it is wiped out? bug 80462 ... bug 88358 ... bug 88877 ... bug 89205 ... bug 104179 ... bug 108614 ... bug 115539 ... and now bug 129480 Patches have already been submitted as well. One line changed in libmisc/chkname.c from the shadow-utils package fixes it, and yet it has persisted since 2002-12-26. *name == '_' || *name == '-' || *name == '.' || Is there some reason this is being left uncorrected even though it has been marked as RESOLVED in bugzilla? I'd certainly enjoy not having to manually patch it in future releases. I have seen this file that is supposed to be a patch. However, what is the path to the file that needs to be patched. I have run searches, found the shadow-utils directory and I still for some reason can't fine this libmisc/chkname.c file that is supposed to be patched. Could you please give me the path to this file for FC 2? The trick is to install the source rpm (SRPM) for shadow-utils first; then you will be able to find the chkname.c file and edit it. Assuming the development environment is already in place, the process I follow goes like this: rpm -ivh shadow-utils-4.0.3-21.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ bunzip2 shadow-4.0.3.tar.bz2 tar -xvf shadow-4.0.3.tar cd shadow-4.0.3/libmisc/ vi chkname.c // USE VI TO EDIT THE SOURCE CODE, SAVE CHANGES, AND EXIT. cd ../.. tar -cvf shadow-4.0.3.tar shadow-4.0.3/ bzip2 shadow-4.0.3.tar rm -rf shadow-4.0.3 cd ../SPECS/ rpmbuild -bb shadow-utils.spec cd ../RPMS/i386 rpm -Uvh --force shadow-utils-4.0.3-21.i386.rpm There's probably a quicker method to it, but this works for me and is relatively easy to follow. It sure would be nice if it wasn't necessary at all, however ... Also, note that since Fedora Core 2 (maybe Core 1?) it is necessary to have libtool and libselinux-devel installed as well before rebuilding the shadow-utils RPM. Hope this helps! That worked great! Thanks a lot! Only thing, and if this can't be changed, it's cool, but the gui interface for adding/editing users still doesn't let punctuation in. I can do it via useradd, but is there any way to make it work system wide? Glad that helped you out :-) It's a simple enough fix -- simple enough to make me wonder why it hasn't been rolled into a release for almost two years now. We'll probably never know why it was broken (and then not immediately fixed) in the first place. I don't use the graphical tools myself, so I can't help you there. I'm a little surprised though that the graphical tool wouldn't use the same "good_name" function from the shadow tools. My gut says it should and that you might have a whole new bug report there. Good luck to you! "." will be allowed (as well as mixed case). |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I have seen this problem before in other distributions (RedHat 9.0), but fix doesn't seem to work for Fedora 2. The useradd function won't allow a '.' in usernames. Such as user.name. Most of my pop3 email address use the format firstname.lastname, so this is quite a problem for me. Someone please help. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.useradd user.name <ENTER> 2. 3. Actual Results: invalid user 'user.name' Additional info: