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

[Justin Pryzby]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:31:37PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found these references in this mailing list or previous upstream
> list at PLD:

> Subject: Re: Bug#264879: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#264879: passwd: useradd allows invalid characters as username
That seems right; I was even the submitter and you mentioned the
user.group heureustic:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=39;bug=264879

Thanks for digging that up.

BTW what is PLD?

Thanks,
Justin