Re: About valid and invalid user names
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:38:36 +0100, Marc Haber
<mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
>rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
>another wants usernames to start with numbers.
>
>May I ask for your opinion before denying or following the requests?
After the discussion, I am now inclined to do the following:
By default, adduser will verify the user against a configurable
regexp, default being the most conservative ^[a-z][a-z0-9\-]*$. The
--force-badname option will change the regexp to a hardcoded
^[-\._A-Za-z0-9]*\$?$, allowing users to happily hang themselves. This
gives the somewhat funny situation that the default can be configured
to be less restrictive than --force-badname, but I doubt that it would
be sensible to have --force-badname turn off all checks.
Your opinion?
Greetings
Marc
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