[Pkg-shadow-commits] r739 - trunk/debian/patches

[Nicolas FRANCOIS]

Author: nekral-guest
Date: 2005-12-20 20:49:22 +0000 (Tue, 20 Dec 2005)
New Revision: 739

Modified:
   trunk/debian/patches/406_good_name.dpatch
Log:
Document that usernames are not so strict in Debian.


Modified: trunk/debian/patches/406_good_name.dpatch
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/patches/406_good_name.dpatch	2005-12-19 22:50:11 UTC (rev 738)
+++ trunk/debian/patches/406_good_name.dpatch	2005-12-20 20:49:22 UTC (rev 739)
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
 exit 0
 
 @DPATCH@
-Index: shadow-4.0.13/libmisc/chkname.c
+Index: shadow-4.0.14/libmisc/chkname.c
 ===================================================================
---- shadow-4.0.13.orig/libmisc/chkname.c	2005-10-04 08:06:31.017236469 +0200
-+++ shadow-4.0.13/libmisc/chkname.c	2005-10-04 08:07:32.351739123 +0200
+--- shadow-4.0.14.orig/libmisc/chkname.c	2005-08-31 19:24:57.000000000 +0200
++++ shadow-4.0.14/libmisc/chkname.c	2005-12-20 21:33:09.000000000 +0100
 @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  #endif
  static int good_name (const char *name)
@@ -63,3 +63,24 @@
  
  	return 1;
  }
+Index: shadow-4.0.14/man/useradd.8.xml
+===================================================================
+--- shadow-4.0.14.orig/man/useradd.8.xml	2005-12-20 21:33:08.000000000 +0100
++++ shadow-4.0.14/man/useradd.8.xml	2005-12-20 21:43:09.000000000 +0100
+@@ -352,9 +352,13 @@
+     </para>
+ 
+     <para>
+-      Usernames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, and
+-      only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs may
+-      follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]
++      On Debian, the constraints on the username are lowered:
++      Usernames must neither start by a dash ('-') nor contain a colon (':') or
++      an end of line ('\n').
++      However, it is usually recommended to only use usernames that begin with
++      a lower case letter or an underscore, and are only followed by lower
++      case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs. In regular
++      expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]
+     </para>
+   </refsect1>
+