[1833] in Moira
Re: chfn changes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Jul 26 20:33:04 2001
Message-Id: <200107270033.UAA08382@the-other-woman.mit.edu>
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:14:37 EDT."
<200107250214.WAA19089@brad-majors.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:33:02 -0400
> Rip out code from chfn; this is artifically limiting the
> acceptable formats for phone numbers.
The only concern I have is that something makes assumptions about the
format of this that chfn had been enforcing. finger doesn't seem to
have a problem with jhawk right now though. I'm a little concerned
about weird characters making it into a passwd file entry. I think we
probably ought to prevent comma and colon at the least. (If we aren't
excluding them from other finger info fields we probably want to do
that too.
Jonathon
