Author: wblock (doc committer) Date: Thu May 29 02:26:12 2014 New Revision: 266828 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/266828
Log: Correct the description of characters allowed. Based on pw_checkname in usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c. Modified version of patch submitted by venture37. PR: docs/47594 Submitted by: Fernando Schapachnik <ferna...@mecon.gov.ar>, venture37 <ventur...@geeklan.co.uk> Reviewed by: allanjude, bcr, brueffer (on phabricator) MFC after: 1 week Modified: head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Modified: head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Thu May 29 01:42:22 2014 (r266827) +++ head/share/man/man5/passwd.5 Thu May 29 02:26:12 2014 (r266828) @@ -125,19 +125,29 @@ Routines that manipulate these files will often return only one of the multiple entries, and that one by random selection. .Pp -The login name must never begin with a hyphen -.Pq Ql - ; -also, it is strongly -suggested that neither upper-case characters or dots -.Pq Ql \&. -be part -of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. +The login name must not begin with a hyphen +.Pq Ql \&- , +and cannot contain 8-bit characters, tabs or spaces, or any of these +symbols: +.Ql \&,:+&#%^\&(\&)!@~*?<>=|\e\\&/" . +The dollar symbol +.Pq Ql \&$ +is allowed only as the last character for use with Samba. No field may contain a colon .Pq Ql \&: as this has been used historically to separate the fields in the user database. .Pp +Case is significant. +Login names +.Ql Lrrr +and +.Ql lrrr +represent different users. +Be aware of this when interoperating with systems that do not have +case-sensitive login names. +.Pp In the .Nm master.passwd file, _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
