[Bugs] #2152 UNSP: Registration fails if user name contains ":"

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#2152: Registration fails if user name contains ":"
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    Reporter:  bernie                     |          Owner:  anurag_seeta               
        Type:  defect                     |         Status:  assigned                   
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                      |        Version:  Git as of bugdate          
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:  dextrose sugar-love        
Status_field:  Unconfirmed                |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
   Seeta_dev:  Dipankar                   |  
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Changes (by dsd):

 * cc: dsd (added)


Comment:

 I think it's perfectly reasonable that Sugar accepts a colon and even
 sends it during registration -- Sugar doesn't know that the other end is
 going to put that in a GECOS field of a unix account. An alternative idmgr
 implementation could do something completely different, or have a
 different set of illegal characters.

 So, I think this problem should be confirmed to being an idmgr bug and we
 should fix it there and only there. No sugar changes. I also suspect that
 there's some way of including a : in a GECOS by escaping it, but I'm only
 guessing.

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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2152#comment:10>
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