From 08b66d902593bc60775066bc33e91402f274dad7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul S. Owen" <psotfx@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 23:54:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Slashing of allowed username chars corrected ... may not
 appear to work "correctly" till remaining changes are committed

git-svn-id: file:///svn/phpbb/trunk@4555 89ea8834-ac86-4346-8a33-228a782c2dd0
---
 phpBB/includes/functions_user.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php b/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php
index bf2eb2c4dd..7df2b0a60b 100644
--- a/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php
+++ b/phpBB/includes/functions_user.php
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ function validate_username($username)
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	if (!preg_match('#^' . $config['allow_name_chars'] . '$#i', $username))
+	if (!preg_match('#^' . str_replace('\\\\', '\\', $config['allow_name_chars']) . '$#i', $username))
 	{
 		return 'INVALID_CHARS';
 	}