From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:18:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: accounts: Use regex to enforce correct length of usernames
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire.org.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=48e3ea58899ab5381c4572489b93c7407f0daf62

accounts: Use regex to enforce correct length of usernames

Signed-off-by: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>
---

diff --git a/src/backend/accounts.py b/src/backend/accounts.py
index 67bb1894..5251ef33 100644
--- a/src/backend/accounts.py
+++ b/src/backend/accounts.py
@@ -127,12 +127,8 @@ class Accounts(Object):
 			return result
 
 	def uid_is_valid(self, uid):
-		# UID must be at least four characters
-		if len(uid) < 4:
-			return False
-
 		# https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/157426/what-is-the-regex-to-validate-linux-users
-		m = re.match(r"^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]{0,31}$", uid)
+		m = re.match(r"^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]{3,31}$", uid)
 		if m:
 			return True
 
diff --git a/src/templates/auth/register.html b/src/templates/auth/register.html
index 6b252784..c72607a1 100644
--- a/src/templates/auth/register.html
+++ b/src/templates/auth/register.html
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
 						</div>
 						<input type="text" class="form-control form-control-lg"
 							name="uid" placeholder="{{ _("Username") }}" required autofocus
-							pattern="[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]{0,31}">
+							pattern="[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]{3,31}">
 					</div>
 					<div id="uid-invalid" class="invalid-feedback">
-						{{ _("Please choose a username in UNIX format: Starting with a lowercase letter, followed by only lowercase ASCII characters and digits only.") }}
+						{{ _("Please choose a username in UNIX format with at least four characters, starting with a lowercase letter, followed by only lowercase letters, digits, dash and underscore.") }}
 					</div>
 					<div id="uid-taken" class="invalid-feedback">
 						{{ _("This username is not available.") }}