Re: [BUG] You can't have single quote in your username

From: Giuseppe Crino' <giuscri@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 28, 2019, 14:33 UTC
Message-ID: <20190828143315.GA4477@instance-template-2.europe-west6-a.c.vaulted-journal-250706.internal>
In-Reply-To: <20190826191455.GA25695@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 03:14:55PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> But we'd still need something at least for
> GECOS, where "Your Name,,,," is common.

As I understand this, those commas are *not* removed by strbuf_addstr_without_crud(). Instead they're skipped from /etc/pass -- see `ident.c/copy_gecos()`.

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