internal/validate: relocate from app

These are free of the dispatcher from internal/app. This change relocates them into their own package.

Signed-off-by: Ophestra <cat@gensokyo.uk>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/internal/validate/username.go b/internal/validate/username.go
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index 00000000..2249cd27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/validate/username.go
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package validate
+
+import "regexp"
+
+// nameRegex is the default NAME_REGEX value from adduser.
+var nameRegex = regexp.MustCompilePOSIX(`^[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*\$?$`)
+
+// IsValidUsername returns whether the argument is a valid username.
+func IsValidUsername(username string) bool {
+	return len(username) < Sysconf(SC_LOGIN_NAME_MAX) &&
+		nameRegex.MatchString(username)
+}