If a username includes the character "-" then cron can not send a mail about its cronjob. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create user with charachter "-", # useradd -m -d /home/w_server-l33_de15649f w_server-l33_de15649f 2. Its cronjob: $ crontab -l # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/crontab.XXXXxBjOSe installed on Wed Jan 13 17:57:30 2016) # (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $) */1 * * * * date | tee -a $HOME/cron.log Actual Results: # grep w_server-l33_de15649f /var/log/cron.log Jan 14 03:11:01 l33 cron[29979]: (w_server-l33_de15649f) UNSAFE (w_server-l33_de15649f) # dmesg | grep cron | grep segfault [4393074.367688] cron[29979]: segfault at 1 ip 00007fdbc086c7e8 sp 00007ffe1ce22200 error 4 in libc-2.20.so[7fdbc0822000+18f000] Expected Results: The cron has to send a mail to the username w_server-l33_de15649f --- vixie-cron-3.0.1.orig/do_command.c 2004-08-27 22:09:34.000000000 +0400 +++ vixie-cron-3.0.1/do_command.c 2016-01-14 13:12:57.135798686 +0300 @@ -511,7 +511,7 @@ static int safe_p(const char *usernm, const char *s) { - static const char safe_delim[] = "@!:%-.,"; /* conservative! */ + static const char safe_delim[] = "@!:%-.,_"; /* conservative! */ const char *t; int ch, first;
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