Bug 99115
| Summary: | redhat-config-users and useradd allowed user names not consistant | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Pete Norton <pnorton> |
| Component: | redhat-config-users | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | johnhoyle |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-08-15 01:26:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Ok, I've changed it to allow underscores and dashes in both usernames and groupnames. I will have to fix this in firstboot as well. Should be fixed in redhat-config-users-1.1.16-1. *** Bug 101664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This fix is broken. :) See bug #120669. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: redhat-config-users wholesale does not allow any punctuation in a user name. However, useradd (from shadow-util) does allow the use of the dash ('-') and the underscore ('_'). Adding a user with useradd with a dash or an underscore makes that user effectively un-editable with redhat-config-users. Since both utilities do pretty much the same thing, they need to be consistant in what kind of user names they allow. My biggest gripe right now is that from previous versions of Redhat to v9.0, the ability to use a period ('.') in a user name as been removed. I assume that this is deliberate, but I can not find any offical pronouncement of what makes a "legal" username. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-users-1.1.5-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.useradd joe-smith 2.Edit user joe-smith with User Manger 3.Make a change and try to save. Actual Results: The user name 'joe-smith' contains punctuation characters. Please do not use punctuation in the user name. Expected Results: It should accept the changes? Additional info: