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

[Christian Perrier]

> > Indeed, even manually quoting or escaping colons in /etc/passwd
> > completely breaks the given entries.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > This would be VERY likely to potentially break out all custom
> > utilities relying on a basic analysis of passwd to but out fields.
> > 
> > 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 ?


Well, we'd better ask the bug submitter for this.....So let's put him
in copy of this mail so that he sees your answer.