On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, joseph mpora wrote:

> static int
> good_name(const char *name)
> {
>       /*
>        * User/group names must match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*
>        */
>       if (!*name || !((*name >= 'a' && *name <= 'z') || *name == '_'))
>               return 0;
>
>       while (*++name) {
>               if (!((*name >= 'a' && *name <= 'z') ||
>                   (*name >= '0' && *name <= '9') ||
>                   *name == '_' || *name == '-' ||
>                   (*name == '$' && *(name+1) == NULL)))
>                       return 0;
>       }

Most likely you'll need to hack about that while statement and add support
for the dot.  Probably the final statement will look like this;

--
        while (*++name) {
                if (!((*name >= 'a' && *name <= 'z') ||
                    (*name >= '0' && *name <= '9') ||
                    *name == '_' || *name == '-' || *name == '.' ||
                    (*name == '$' && *(name+1) == NULL)))
                        return 0;
        }
--


Gerald.


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