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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 05:40:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
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>Number:         42590
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Sep 09 05:50:02 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 09 10:11:34 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 09 10:11:34 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Kirill Ponomarew
>Release:        FreeBSD-4.6.2-RELEASE
>Organization:
Oberon.net
>Environment:
FreeBSD voodoo.oberon.net 4.6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Sep  3 14:49:07 CEST 2002     root@voodoo.oberon.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/VOODOO  i386
>Description:
"pw" doesn't accept + in usernames
>How-To-Repeat:
krion@voodoo krion$ sudo pw useradd ku+ku
pw: invalid character `+' in field
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
To: Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/42590: pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:22:59 +0200 (CEST)

 On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
 
 ..., thankfully. :-)
 
 Read the manual page for passwd(5), under the "YP/NIS INTERACTION" heading.
 
 (regardless of this, '+' isn't among the characters permitted in login
 names.  I don't know which particular standard specified this, but it's
 fairly established now; consider e g the use of username+foobar@whatever
 to turn one's mail addresses into a namespace of sorts.)
 
 B
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: wollman 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 9 10:10:14 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
The '+' character is not permitted in user names.  See IEEE Std.1003.1-2001, 
Base Definitions, section 3.426. 

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