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Diffstat (limited to 'adduser/adduser.perl')
| -rw-r--r-- | adduser/adduser.perl | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/adduser/adduser.perl b/adduser/adduser.perl index 421cf02..9084d22 100644 --- a/adduser/adduser.perl +++ b/adduser/adduser.perl @@ -328,8 +328,10 @@ sub new_users_name_valid { local($name) = @_; if ($name !~ /^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_\-]*$/ || $name eq "a-z0-9_-") { - warn "Wrong username. " . - "Please use only lowercase characters or digits\a\n"; + warn "Illegal username.\n" . + "Please use only lowercase Roman, decimal, underscore, " . + "or hyphen characters.\n" . + "Additionally, a username should not start with a hyphen.\a\n"; return 0; } elsif ($username{$name}) { warn "Username ``$name'' already exists!\a\n"; return 0; |