freebsd stable - Nov 2004 - pw and adduser different checks ?

Hi,
I am trying to add users via a batch on a 4-STABLE

Using the perl made adduser:

[...]
Name:     test
Password: ****
Fullname: test@test.com
Uid:      1000
Gid:      1000 (test)
Class:
Groups:   test
HOME:     /home/test
Shell:    /bin/sh
OK? (y/n) [y]:
Added user ``test''

And in the master.passwd I found :
test::1000:1000::0:0:test@test.com:/home/test:/bin/sh


while if I use pw:

/usr/sbin/pw useradd -ntest -ctest@test.com -d/home/test -g1000 -s/bin/sh 
-u1000
pw: invalid character `@' at position 4 in gecos field

Who is right of both the program ?  :-)

IMHO I find usefull to have the @ in the gecos field  because it is an easy 
way to associate login <-> email in multidomain enviroment.
But probably there is some drawback I am not aware of ...
Any explanation ?

Thanks.



Best Regards,
Gianmarco Giovannelli ,  "Unix expert since yesterday"
http://utenti.gufi.org/~gmarco/

> /usr/sbin/pw useradd -ntest -ctest@test.com -d/home/test -g1000 -s/bin/sh 
> -u1000
> pw: invalid character `@' at position 4 in gecos field
> 
> Who is right of both the program ?  :-)
> 
> IMHO I find usefull to have the @ in the gecos field  because it is an easy
> way to associate login <-> email in multidomain enviroment.
> But probably there is some drawback I am not aware of ...
> Any explanation ?
The problem is pw being unreasonably restrictive.

In the same way, you can't use pw to add a user with a $ in their name,
which is necessary for samba.


Phil.

retry as: ctest\@test.com