users-admin has been replaced with a gnome-control-center applet in
GNOME 3, and it uses useradd, so I don't really care now. Feel free to
close the bug.
(Note though that useradd seems to allow dots in usernames on most
platforms, which probably suffer from the same potential problems as
Debian.)
severity 604242 wishlist
thanks
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 07:14:36PM +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> The current bug should also IMHO be fixed for adduser itself,
> disregarding the fact that users-admin needs it. I can't find a reason
> why dots shouldn't be allowed, and they can be pretty conv
Le dimanche 21 novembre 2010 à 17:42 +, Stephen Gran a écrit :
> - $configref->{"name_regex"} = "^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$";
> - $configref->{"name_regex_system"} = "^[A-Za-z][-A-Za-z0-9_]*\$";
> + $configref->{"name_regex"} = "^[a-z][-a-z0-9_.]*\$";
> + $configref->{"name_regex_system"} = "^[A-Z
This one time, at band camp, Milan Bouchet-Valat said:
> I don't think there's a reason not to allow usernames to contain dots
> (.), as they are also allowed to contain underscores (_) and dashes (-).
> useradd accepts this.
>
> Attached is a patch that makes dots be allowed just as other special
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