libbb/die_if_bad_username.c

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/*
 * Ckeck user and group names for illegal characters
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2008 Tito Ragusa <farmatito@tiscali.it>
 *
 * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
 */

#include "libbb.h"

/* To avoid problems, the username 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 username.
 */

void die_if_bad_username(const char *name)
{
	int i = 0;

	do {
		if (!isalnum(*name)
		 && !(*name == '_')
		 && !(*name == '.')
		 && !(*name == '@')
		 && !(*name == '-' && i)
		 && !(*name == '$' && !*(name + 1))
		)
			bb_error_msg_and_die("illegal character '%c'", *name);
		i++;
	} while (*++name);
}