\bgh-95376: Add test for names containing null (#GH-5394)

Co-authored-by: Erlend Egeberg Aasland <erlend.aasland@protonmail.com>

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
index c789326425be32302f21bbf5a00a5f77d81bcc05..aa090b464a72222f132c692b3b84a3be972e544b 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_pwd.py
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ class PwdTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, pwd.getpwnam)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, pwd.getpwnam, 42)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, pwd.getpwall, 42)
+        # embedded null character
+        self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'null', pwd.getpwnam, 'a\x00b')
 
         # try to get some errors
         bynames = {}