Bug#181448: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#181448: Yet another "crazy" suggestion

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

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On Tue, 24 May 2005, Christian Perrier wrote:

> tags 181448 wontfix
> thanks
>=20
> Indeed, the wishlist bugs for shadow are a huge can of nasty
> worms...:-(
>=20
>=20
> Now, we have a user requesting in #181448:
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> It is not possible to put SIP URLs like "sip:19081@fwd.pulver.com" in
> the GECOS phone field. This should be allowed, because such URLs are
> used for Voice over IP.
>=20
> Since the GECOS information is stored in the passwd file, where colons
> are used as delimiters, some means of quoting or encoding the colon will
> be necessary.
>=20
> Example:
>=20
> screwdriver% chfn
> Password:=20
> Changing the user information for galen
> Enter the new value, or press return for the default
>         Full Name: Galen Hancock
>         Room Number []:=20
>         Work Phone []: sip:19081@fwd.pulver.com
>         Home Phone []:=20
> chfn: invalid work phone: "sip:19081@fwd.pulver.com"
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> Indeed, even manually quoting or escaping colons in /etc/passwd
> completely breaks the given entries.
>=20
> I'm again very reluctant to push Tomasz to introduce a complex
> escaping machanism for passwd fields, allowing the use of colons in
> the GECOS field.
>=20
> This would be VERY likely to potentially break out all custom
> utilities relying on a basic analysis of passwd to but out fields.
>=20
> So, here, I mark the bug as wontfix and wait for comments to convince
> me that it's really worth the effort and absolutely not dangerous.

OK. Point taken.
But I have questions about this:

- is sip:19081@fwd.pulver.com it is URI/URL or not ? if yes probably
  correct format of above is "sip://19081@fwd.pulver.com/".

- anyone know some template/example code URI/URL syntax checker ?

kloczek
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