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

[Nicolas François]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:46:43AM -0500, justinpryzby at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 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?

PLD is the PLD Linux Distribution (used to be Polish Linux Distribution),
and used to be the upstream of the shadow utils.

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