The following reply was made to PR misc/29913; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Arto Selonen <arto@selonen.org>
To: Peter Postma <peter@pointless.nl>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/29913
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:21:12 +0300 (EEST)

 Hi!
 
 On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Peter Postma wrote:
 
 >> Make /etc/security know about special system accounts using '_' as
 >> first character.
 >
 > Ok, and while we are here, we could also allow embedded underscores and dots.
 > Please try the attached patch.
 
 Tried it, and as expected, it seemed to fix my problem. :)
 No side effects, though I don't have any exotic user/group names
 where this would trigger anything (ie. my /etc/{master.passwd,group} are
 probably as good as yours for testing this).
 
 Thanks for looking into this.
 
 
 Artsi
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