Bug#185091: marked as done (pan: Pam does not understand "&" in
username field of /etc/passwd)
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From: & Youngman <james@free-lunch.demon.co.uk>
Subject: pan: Pam does not understand "&" in username field of /etc/passwd
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Package: pan
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A "&" in the username field of /etc/passwd is supposed to expand to a
capitalised version of the username. For example, on this box,
"finger james" produces this :-
Login: james Name: James Youngman
Directory: /home/james Shell: /bin/bash
On since Mon Mar 17 00:03 (GMT) on pts/0 from :0
[...]
No mail.
No Plan.
However, "grep james /etc/passwd" shows :-
james:x:101:100:& Youngman:/home/james:/bin/bash
When Pam starts, and the user has never used it before, it makes a
guess at their full name based on the contents of /etc/passwd.
However, it doesn't know about this notation, and so it guesses "&
Youngman", which is incorrect.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Kernel Version: Linux dsl-217-155-175-18.zen.co.uk 2.4.18-k6 #1 Sun Apr 14 12:43:22 EST 2002 i586 AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages pan depends on:
ii gdk-imlib1 1.9.14-2 Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for use with
ii libart2 1.4.1.4-3 The Gnome canvas widget - runtime files.
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.3-4 The Audiofile Library
ii libc6 2.3.1-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libdb3 3.2.9-16 Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii libesd0 0.2.23-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries
ii libgdk-pixbuf2 0.17.0-2 The GdkPixBuf library.
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-4 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome32 1.4.1.4-3 The Gnome libraries
ii libgnomesuppor 1.4.1.4-3 The Gnome libraries (Support libraries)
ii libgnomeui32 1.4.1.4-3 The Gnome libraries (User Interface)
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-11 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
ii libxml1 1.8.17-2 GNOME XML library
ii xlibs 4.1.0-16 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1.1.4-1 compression library - runtime
libesd-alsa0 Not installed or no info
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Subject: Re: pan: Pam does not understand "&" in username field of
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Hi,
This bug should be fixed with glib 2.4 in unstable, I'm closing it. Feel
free to reopen it if the bug is still here.
Cheers,
Sebastien Bacher