Bug 138632 - useradd - cannot add user with number in username
Summary: useradd - cannot add user with number in username
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
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Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 135876
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-10 12:56 UTC by cervajs
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 4.0.3-40
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-11-10 20:39:38 UTC
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Description cervajs 2004-11-10 12:56:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
after this update 

* Thu Oct 28 2004 Adrian Havill <havill> 2:4.0.3-38

- conform to posix for user/group name input checking [def 3.426
  and 3.189] which is posix portable filename character set [3.276]
  while disallowing dash for first char as recommended, and disallow
  dollar sign)

i cannot add user with number in login name i.e. fx999001

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How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.update to shadow-utils-4.0.3-38.i386.rpm 
2.try add user with number in login name
3.
  
Actual results:
invalid username

Expected results:
user added

Additional info:
Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2004-11-10 20:39:38 UTC 
bad bug indeed. set of grouping parens got dropped in the goodname()
func for check of chars 2 to N (so actually, a digit as the 1st char
would work)

pushing to rawhide now
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