From a7d6c8bab919e1a537f8b7db7b8676484e60f550 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:15:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito
 <farmatito AT tiscali.it>). +129 bytes when enabled.

---
 include/libbb.h       |  6 +++++-
 libbb/Kbuild          |  1 +
 loginutils/Config.in  | 12 ++++++++++++
 loginutils/addgroup.c |  3 +++
 loginutils/adduser.c  |  1 +
 5 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/libbb.h b/include/libbb.h
index d059ac9de..19b3bba5f 100644
--- a/include/libbb.h
+++ b/include/libbb.h
@@ -637,7 +637,11 @@ const char* get_cached_groupname(gid_t gid);
 void clear_username_cache(void);
 /* internally usernames are saved in fixed-sized char[] buffers */
 enum { USERNAME_MAX_SIZE = 16 - sizeof(int) };
-
+#if ENABLE_FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES
+void die_if_bad_username(const char* name);
+#else
+#define die_if_bad_username(name) ((void)(name))
+#endif
 
 int execable_file(const char *name);
 char *find_execable(const char *filename);
diff --git a/libbb/Kbuild b/libbb/Kbuild
index 654722cd6..5740d9247 100644
--- a/libbb/Kbuild
+++ b/libbb/Kbuild
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ lib-$(CONFIG_MKFS_MINIX) += find_mount_point.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_SELINUX) += selinux_common.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_HWCLOCK) += rtc.o
 lib-$(CONFIG_RTCWAKE) += rtc.o
+lib-$(CONFIG_FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES) += die_if_bad_username.o
 
 # We shouldn't build xregcomp.c if we don't need it - this ensures we don't
 # require regex.h to be in the include dir even if we don't need it thereby
diff --git a/loginutils/Config.in b/loginutils/Config.in
index 81d05ef89..c57d9976e 100644
--- a/loginutils/Config.in
+++ b/loginutils/Config.in
@@ -82,6 +82,18 @@ config FEATURE_DEL_USER_FROM_GROUP
 	  If called with two non-option arguments, deluser
 	  or delgroup will remove an user from a specified group.
 
+config FEATURE_CHECK_NAMES
+	bool "Enable sanity check on user/group names in adduser and addgroup"
+	default n
+	depends on ADDUSER || ADDGROUP
+	help
+	  Enable sanity check on user and group names in adduser and addgroup.
+	  To avoid problems, the user or group name should consist only of
+	  letters, digits, underscores, periods, at signs and dashes,
+	  and not start with a dash (as defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001).
+	  For compatibility with Samba machine accounts "$" is also supported
+	  at the end of the user or group name.
+
 config ADDUSER
 	bool "adduser"
 	default n
diff --git a/loginutils/addgroup.c b/loginutils/addgroup.c
index b25f8171d..367c6b9f0 100644
--- a/loginutils/addgroup.c
+++ b/loginutils/addgroup.c
@@ -173,8 +173,11 @@ int addgroup_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
 #endif
 	} else
 #endif /* ENABLE_FEATURE_ADDUSER_TO_GROUP */
+	{
+		die_if_bad_username(argv[0]);
 		new_group(argv[0], gid);
 
+	}
 	/* Reached only on success */
 	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
 }
diff --git a/loginutils/adduser.c b/loginutils/adduser.c
index d409eabb9..cd68015d1 100644
--- a/loginutils/adduser.c
+++ b/loginutils/adduser.c
@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ int adduser_main(int argc ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, char **argv)
 
 	/* fill in the passwd struct */
 	pw.pw_name = argv[0];
+	die_if_bad_username(pw.pw_name);
 	if (!pw.pw_dir) {
 		/* create string for $HOME if not specified already */
 		pw.pw_dir = xasprintf("/home/%s", argv[0]);