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-rw-r--r--include/libbb.h6
-rw-r--r--libbb/Kbuild1
-rw-r--r--loginutils/Config.in12
-rw-r--r--loginutils/addgroup.c3
-rw-r--r--loginutils/adduser.c1
5 files changed, 22 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index d059ac9..19b3bba 100644
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -637,7 +637,11 @@ const char* get_cached_groupname(gid_t gid);
void clear_username_cache(void);
/* internally usernames are saved in fixed-sized char[] buffers */
enum { USERNAME_MAX_SIZE = 16 - sizeof(int) };
-
+#if ENABLE_FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES
+void die_if_bad_username(const char* name);
+#else
+#define die_if_bad_username(name) ((void)(name))
+#endif
int execable_file(const char *name);
char *find_execable(const char *filename);
diff --git a/libbb/Kbuild b/libbb/Kbuild
index 654722c..5740d92 100644
--- a/libbb/Kbuild
+++ b/libbb/Kbuild
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_MKFS_MINIX) += find_mount_point.o
lib-$(CONFIG_SELINUX) += selinux_common.o
lib-$(CONFIG_HWCLOCK) += rtc.o
lib-$(CONFIG_RTCWAKE) += rtc.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES) += die_if_bad_username.o
# We shouldn't build xregcomp.c if we don't need it - this ensures we don't
# require regex.h to be in the include dir even if we don't need it thereby
diff --git a/loginutils/Config.in b/loginutils/Config.in
index 81d05ef..c57d997 100644
--- a/loginutils/Config.in
+++ b/loginutils/Config.in
@@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ config FEATURE_DEL_USER_FROM_GROUP
If called with two non-option arguments, deluser
or delgroup will remove an user from a specified group.
+config FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES
+ bool "Enable sanity check on user/group names in adduser and addgroup"
+ default n
+ depends on ADDUSER || ADDGROUP
+ help
+ Enable sanity check on user and group names in adduser and addgroup.
+ To avoid problems, the user or group name should consist only of
+ letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes,
+ and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
+ For compatibility with Samba machine accounts "$" is also supported
+ at the end of the user or group name.
+
config ADDUSER
bool "adduser"
default n
diff --git a/loginutils/addgroup.c b/loginutils/addgroup.c
index b25f817..367c6b9 100644
--- a/loginutils/addgroup.c
+++ b/loginutils/addgroup.c
@@ -173,8 +173,11 @@ int addgroup_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
#endif
} else
#endif /* ENABLE_FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP */
+ {
+ die_if_bad_username(argv[0]);
new_group(argv[0], gid);
+ }
/* Reached only on success */
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
diff --git a/loginutils/adduser.c b/loginutils/adduser.c
index d409eab..cd68015 100644
--- a/loginutils/adduser.c
+++ b/loginutils/adduser.c
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ int adduser_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
/* fill in the passwd struct */
pw.pw_name = argv[0];
+ die_if_bad_username(pw.pw_name);
if (!pw.pw_dir) {
/* create string for $HOME if not specified already */
pw.pw_dir = xasprintf("/home/%s", argv[0]);