Re: [cobalt-users] & sign in email addresses and usernames

["Randall Clark" <wz297@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If I wanted to edit the siteUserEmail.cgi file, what would I change???

Randall


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Schreiber" <cheesefactory@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] & sign in email addresses and usernames


> --- Randall Clark <wz297@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I tried both username and an alias, these are the errors I am getting...
> >
> > username:
> > Only lowercase letters, digits, (.), (-) and (_) are allowed in user
name.
> > The first character must be a letter or a digit.
> >
> > alias:
> > Invalid or conflicting email aliases: test&test2
>
> I was able to get the same error message. I skimmed RFC 822,
>   ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc822.txt
>
> and & -seems- to be permissible. maybe cobalt's being overly restrictive.
>
> you can hack /etc/virtusertable yourself ... there's a bit that says "put
> custom additions after here." and then do the makemap hash thing i posted
> about earlier today. then restart sendmail.
>
> i poked around the source...
> /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteUserEmail/siteUserEmail.cgi
>      86         if( $alias !~ /^[a-z0-9\.\-\_\@]+$/o ) { $badAlias=1; }
>
> they only allow letters, digits, underscores, dashes and hyphens.
>
> that RE looks kinda weak to me.
>
> Paul
>
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