[Pcbsd-developer] An ask on PCBSD Usermanager.

[Matteo N. <mat...@da...>]

Hi, i see in source code of usermanagerback.cpp

fullnameRegExp.setPattern("([a-z]*[A-Z]*[0-9]*\\s*)+");

But, into:

/usr/src/usr.sbin/pw/pw_user.c, i see:

char    *
pw_checkname(u_char *name, int gecos)
{
        *****************
        *****************
        if (gecos) {
                /* See if the name is valid as a gecos (comment) field. */
                badchars = ":!@";
                showtype = "gecos field";

the only 3 character not allowed to be in Fullname are:

badchars = ":!@";

My ask is: Why usermanager of PCBSD is more restrictive than
userland FreeBSD binaries, that add/remove user from the system?

This is a problem, because if you add an user with useradd, you
can have FullName like "Pippo &", but if you try to edit this user
with PCBSDUserManager, when you try to save changes (without
change the FullName), it gives you an error on "Pippo &".

Why not use the same badchars of pw_user.c instead of a
regular expression?

Bye.