Subject: Re: useradd: spaces and $ in usernames
To: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/17/2001 12:42:24
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Alan Barrett wrote:
> > -	(void) asystem("%s -rf %s > /dev/null 2>&1 || true", RM, dir);
> > +	(void) asystem("%s -rf '%s' > /dev/null 2>&1 || true", RM, dir);
> >  	(void) seteuid(0);
> 
> This fails if dir contains a single-quote (') character.  NetBSD's libc
> contains a shquote() function that can be used to solve this problem.

Please note that I explicitly check for "'" in my second patch.


 - Hubert

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