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Bug 457124

Summary: user names are not allowed to have a . in the name
Product: [Retired] freeIPA Reporter: Jason Johnston <jason.johnston-bugzilla>
Component: ipa-admintoolsAssignee: Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Version: 1.1CC: benl, dpal, jgalipea
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: freeipa-2.0.0-1.fc15 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 450613    
Bug Blocks: 453489    

Description Jason Johnston 2008-07-29 19:18:35 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008071615 Fedora/3.0.1-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.1

Description of problem:
ipa-adduser test.me
First name: Test
Last name: Me
Username is required and may only include letters and numbers

RHEL/Fedora shadow utils will allow the creation and use of accounts that contain a . in the username, but this is not allowed in either the cli or webui for freeipa. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ipa-admintools-1.1.0-4

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.ipa-adduser test.me


Actual Results:
Account creation failed with the message:

Username is required and may only include letters and numbers

Expected Results:
Account should have been created.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Rob Crittenden 2008-07-29 21:41:41 UTC 
The trick is going to be to find the lowest common denominator so that an IPA
login can work on multiple operating systems.
 
According to "Solaris 10: The Complete Reference" usernames are limited to 8
characters (though it doesn't say which characters).

Other folks seem to believe there is no limit, some say it gets truncated at 8.
No mention of character limitations.
Comment 2 Rob Crittenden 2008-07-29 22:00:37 UTC 
I did a little poking on a Solaris 9 box I have.

useradd seems to want the username to be all alphanumeric, '-', '_', or '.' with
the first character an alpha and no longer than 8 characters.

but it just spits out warnings. It will still add the user as requested.

Perhaps we should do the same. Lighten up a bit and simply warn if we think
something is going to cause problems.
Comment 3 Rob Crittenden 2008-08-06 13:27:29 UTC 
This will use the same patch from bug 450613.
Comment 4 Rob Crittenden 2008-08-07 15:22:19 UTC 
master: 110f60da8e8cbf2b83f66b4959857dc62b407f06
Comment 5 Jenny Severance 2008-11-21 16:37:27 UTC 
Fix Verified:

[root@jennyv3 ~]# ipa-adduser test.me
First name: Test
Last name: Me
test.me successfully added

[root@jennyv3 ~]# ipa-finduser test.me
First Name: Test
Last Name: Me
Home Directory: /home/test.me
Login Shell: /bin/bash
Login: test.me