[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] use same regex for user/group names as shadow-utils

Martin Nagy mnagy at redhat.com
Wed Aug 6 18:02:17 UTC 2008


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> This patch replaces the patch of the same name and the "fix validation 
> return types" patch(es).
> 
> Turns out my tree was quite a bit out-of-date so I re-based the patches 
> and combined them.
> 
> The user/group name validator didn't match the standard *nix validator 
> and disallowed some valid names and allowed some invalid ones (including 
> those with spaces).
> 
> This brings it inline with shadow-utils from Fedora 9.
> 
> Also change the validation routines to return 0/1 instead of True/False 
> which made readability difficult, particularly with the reversed logic.
> 
> rob

ack




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