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| -rw-r--r-- | perl-install/any.pm | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | perl-install/install/NEWS | 2 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/any.pm b/perl-install/any.pm index b71305b99..42a208359 100644 --- a/perl-install/any.pm +++ b/perl-install/any.pm @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ sub ask_user_and_root { require authentication; my $validate_name = sub { $u->{name} or $in->ask_warn('', N("Please give a user name")), return; - $u->{name} =~ /^[a-z]+?[a-z0-9_-]*?$/ or $in->ask_warn('', N("The user name must contain only lower cased letters, numbers, `-' and `_'")), return; + $u->{name} =~ /^[a-z]+[a-z0-9_-]*$/ or $in->ask_warn('', N("The user name must start with a lower case letter followed by only lower cased letters, numbers, `-' and `_'")), return; length($u->{name}) <= 32 or $in->ask_warn('', N("The user name is too long")), return; defined getpwnam($u->{name}) || member($u->{name}, map { $_->{name} } @$users) and $in->ask_warn('', N("This user name has already been added")), return; 'ok'; diff --git a/perl-install/install/NEWS b/perl-install/install/NEWS index 32757b269..37a4ebe98 100644 --- a/perl-install/install/NEWS +++ b/perl-install/install/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +- better describe what usernames we allow (#44783) + Version 12.54 - 23 September 2009 - autologin/desktop configuration (shared code): |