Bug 48399

Summary:	Can't put URL in GECOS phone field
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Galen Hancock <galen>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.7-STABLE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Galen Hancock 2003-02-18 01:10:09 UTC

	It is not possible to put SIP URLs like "sip:19081@fwd.pulver.com" in
	the phone field of the GECOS information. This should be allowed,
	because such URLs are used for Voice over IP.

Fix: 

Since the GECOS information is stored in the passwd file, where colons
	are used as delimiters, some means of quoting or encoding the colon
	will be necessary.
How-To-Repeat: 	When attempting to use a colon in the phone field, chfn gives the
	following message:
	chfn: illegal character in the "office phone" field
	re-edit the password file? [y]:

Comment 1 Mike Makonnen 2003-02-18 04:42:56 UTC

As you've allready noted, colons are not allowed in _any_ passwd field.

The better solution is probably to encode the information in a human readable
format. Example: <sip>19081@fwd.pulver.com</sip>


Cheers.
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Comment 2 le freebsd_committer

2004-07-23 13:09:50 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Colons are used as separators in passwd records and thus not allowed  
in the GECOS data.