[Adduser-devel] Bug#357185: More strict checking for sane username

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Thu Mar 16 08:10:55 UTC 2006


tags #357185 patch confirmed pending
thanks

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:18:54AM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> adduser's regex for checking usernames is too lax, it accepts empty
> usernames, and usernames starting with a dash, in violation of some IEEE
> standard. Please see this patch.

Applied to svn, thanks.

Greetings
Marc

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