[Adduser-devel] [Bug+Fix] NAME_REGEX in adduser.conf is wrong

[Jakob Unterwurzacher]

[ Please cc me, i am not on the list ]

The commented-out example in adduser.conf

#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$"

is wrong because it would require the username to end with a literal 
"$". The backslash should be removed to anchor the regex at the end of 
the string as intended by the author (i guess). This is not shell script!


--- adduser.conf	2009-09-20 22:31:46.000000000 +0200
+++ adduser.conf.fixed	2010-05-12 01:34:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -82,4 +82,4 @@


  # check user and group names also against this regular expression.
-#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$"
+#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*$"