From: James Carter <james.carter@bytemark.co.uk>
To: 705483@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#705483: xfsprogs: xfs_quota misinterprets usernames with leading digits
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:17:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <516D0911.5080408@bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <516C25AC.60506@sgi.com>
On 15/04/13 17:07, Rich Johnston wrote:
>
> I don't think this is a bug, username must begin with a character
> (unless you created the user using NIS or adduser --force-badname).
My understanding that this is a recommendation rather than a
requirement. useradd(8) has the following to say:
On Debian, the only constraints are that usernames must neither
start
with a dash ('-') nor contain a colon (':') or a whitespace
(space: '
', end of line: '\n', tabulation: '\t', etc.). Note that using a
slash
('/') may break the default algorithm for the definition of the
user's
home directory.
In any case, I'd still consider it a bug that trailing non-numeric
characters were just silently ignored.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-15 14:46 Bug#705483: xfsprogs: xfs_quota misinterprets usernames with leading digits James Carter
2013-04-15 16:07 ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-16 8:17 ` James Carter [this message]
2013-04-16 12:29 ` Rich Johnston
2013-04-23 13:02 ` Rich Johnston
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