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authorDenis Vlasenko2008-03-19 23:15:55 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko2008-03-19 23:15:55 +0000
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Ckeck user and group names for illegal characters
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2008 Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ */
+
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+/* To avoid problems, the username should consist only of
+ * letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes,
+ * and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
+ * For compatibility with Samba machine accounts $ is also supported
+ * at the end of the username.
+ */
+
+void die_if_bad_username(const char *name)
+{
+ int i = 0;
+
+ do {
+ if (!isalnum(*name)
+ && !(*name == '_')
+ && !(*name == '.')
+ && !(*name == '@')
+ && !(*name == '-' && i)
+ && !(*name == '$' && !*(name + 1))
+ )
+ bb_error_msg_and_die("illegal character '%c'", *name);
+ i++;
+ } while (*++name);
+}