Bug 456267 - lusermod does not check the length of login
Summary: lusermod does not check the length of login
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libuser
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miloslav Trmač
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks: 646397
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-07-22 15:19 UTC by Milos Malik
Modified: 2010-10-25 10:03 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 646397 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2009-09-14 17:18:47 UTC
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Description Milos Malik 2008-07-22 15:19:23 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080715 Fedora/2.0.0.16-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.16

Description of problem:
luseradd checks the length of login, but lusermod does not.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libuser-0.56.6-2

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
# luseradd  user-whose-login-has-34-characters
Error creating group `user-whose-login-has-34-characters': name is too long (34 > 31)
# echo $?
1
# grep user-whose-login /etc/passwd
# grep user-whose-login /etc/group
# luseradd user-whose-login
# echo $?
0
# lusermod -l user-whose-login-has-34-characters user-whose-login
# echo $?
0
# grep user-whose-login /etc/passwd
user-whose-login-has-34-characters:x:501:501:user-whose-login:/home/user-whose-login:/bin/bash
# grep user-whose-login /etc/group
user-whose-login:x:501:
# luserdel -r user-whose-login-has-34-characters
# echo $?
0
# grep user-whose-login /etc/passwd
# grep user-whose-login /etc/group
user-whose-login:x:501:


Actual Results:
lusermod -l accepts login longer than 32 characters

Expected Results:
lusermod -l rejects login longer than 32 characters

Additional info:

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2008-07-23 13:45:22 UTC
Thanks, good catch.

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Comment 3 Miloslav Trmač 2009-09-14 17:18:47 UTC
Fixed in rawhide libuser-0.56.11-1.


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