1 /* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
3 * Check user and group names for illegal characters
5 * Copyright (C) 2008 Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
7 * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
12 /* To avoid problems, the username should consist only of
13 * letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes,
14 * and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
15 * For compatibility with Samba machine accounts $ is also supported
16 * at the end of the username.
19 void FAST_FUNC die_if_bad_username(const char *name)
21 goto skip; /* 1st char being dash isn't valid */
30 || (*name == '$' && !*(name + 1))
34 bb_error_msg_and_die("illegal character '%c'", *name);