[Pkg-shadow-devel] "." in usernames, ambiguity, and +

[Nicolas François]

Hi,

I found these references in this mailing list or previous upstream
list at PLD:

Subject: Re: about useradd accountname rules
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:32:23 +0200 (CEST)

Subject: ntp: install failed
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:09:01 +0900

Subject: Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Valid group/user names, a bug?
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:07:14 +0100

Subject: Re: Bug#264879: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#264879: passwd: useradd allows invalid characters as username
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 03:25:13 +0300

Subject: [Pkg-shadow-devel] patch for su -  1
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 01:18:06 +0200

I don't know if one of these is what you are talking about.

I don't think there is any open issue regarding user/group separator in
shadow.

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Nekral