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authorJan Synacek <jsynacek@redhat.com>2019-10-02 11:59:41 +0200
committerThe Plumber <50238977+systemd-rhel-bot@users.noreply.github.com>2019-11-07 13:50:33 +0100
commit76176de0889c3e8b9b3a176da24e4f8dbbd380a3 (patch)
tree3a8c63f219f65dd40d0ac876b56e2ec66703e0c7
parent4d2145e3edd6ba6ac2e52a232fa5059ecdacaead (diff)
downloadsystemd-76176de0889c3e8b9b3a176da24e4f8dbbd380a3.tar.gz
basic/user-util: allow dots in user names
(based on commit 1a29610f5fa1bcb2eeb37d2c6b79d8d1a6dbb865) Resolves: #1717603
-rw-r--r--src/basic/user-util.c9
-rw-r--r--src/test/test-user-util.c8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/user-util.c b/src/basic/user-util.c
index c533f67025..d92969c966 100644
--- a/src/basic/user-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/user-util.c
@@ -575,11 +575,14 @@ bool valid_user_group_name(const char *u) {
/* Checks if the specified name is a valid user/group name. Also see POSIX IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition,
* 3.437. We are a bit stricter here however. Specifically we deviate from POSIX rules:
*
- * - We don't allow any dots (this would break chown syntax which permits dots as user/group name separator)
* - We require that names fit into the appropriate utmp field
* - We don't allow empty user names
*
* Note that other systems are even more restrictive, and don't permit underscores or uppercase characters.
+ *
+ * jsynacek: We now allow dots in user names. The checks are not exhaustive as user names like "..." are allowed
+ * and valid according to POSIX, but can't be created using useradd. However, ".user" can be created. Let's not
+ * complicate the code by adding additional checks for weird corner cases like these, as they don't really matter here.
*/
if (isempty(u))
@@ -587,14 +590,14 @@ bool valid_user_group_name(const char *u) {
if (!(u[0] >= 'a' && u[0] <= 'z') &&
!(u[0] >= 'A' && u[0] <= 'Z') &&
- u[0] != '_')
+ u[0] != '_' && u[0] != '.')
return false;
for (i = u+1; *i; i++) {
if (!(*i >= 'a' && *i <= 'z') &&
!(*i >= 'A' && *i <= 'Z') &&
!(*i >= '0' && *i <= '9') &&
- !IN_SET(*i, '_', '-'))
+ !IN_SET(*i, '_', '-', '.'))
return false;
}
diff --git a/src/test/test-user-util.c b/src/test/test-user-util.c
index c1428fab02..9114d30b8c 100644
--- a/src/test/test-user-util.c
+++ b/src/test/test-user-util.c
@@ -71,8 +71,6 @@ static void test_valid_user_group_name(void) {
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("-1"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("-kkk"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("rööt"));
- assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("."));
- assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("eff.eff"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("foo\nbar"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("0123456789012345678901234567890123456789"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("aaa:bbb"));
@@ -83,6 +81,8 @@ static void test_valid_user_group_name(void) {
assert_se(valid_user_group_name("_kkk"));
assert_se(valid_user_group_name("kkk-"));
assert_se(valid_user_group_name("kk-k"));
+ assert_se(valid_user_group_name(".moo"));
+ assert_se(valid_user_group_name("eff.eff"));
assert_se(valid_user_group_name("some5"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name("5some"));
@@ -102,8 +102,6 @@ static void test_valid_user_group_name_or_id(void) {
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("-1"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("-kkk"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("rööt"));
- assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("."));
- assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("eff.eff"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("foo\nbar"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("0123456789012345678901234567890123456789"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("aaa:bbb"));
@@ -114,6 +112,8 @@ static void test_valid_user_group_name_or_id(void) {
assert_se(valid_user_group_name_or_id("_kkk"));
assert_se(valid_user_group_name_or_id("kkk-"));
assert_se(valid_user_group_name_or_id("kk-k"));
+ assert_se(valid_user_group_name_or_id(".moo"));
+ assert_se(valid_user_group_name_or_id("eff.eff"));
assert_se(valid_user_group_name_or_id("some5"));
assert_se(!valid_user_group_name_or_id("5some"));