Bug#389160: [Adduser-devel] Bug#389160: adduser: Please allow "@" in user names

Stephen Gran sgran at debian.org
Sun Sep 24 17:39:40 UTC 2006


This one time, at band camp, Christoph Ulrich Scholler said:
> Please allow creation of user names containing an "@" character.
> Currently, this does not work, even if NAME_REGEX has been changed
> accordingly.
> 
> Background: I want to use PAM/saslauthd as configuration backend for a
> virtual-domain-enabled Cyrus IMAPd.  For this to work correctly, my user
> names must look like email addresses.

Tentative fix has been checked in to svn.  It Works For Me (TM), but
another look wouldn't hurt before release.
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