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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:40:30 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pw
Message-ID:  <200210141240.g9ECeUa3009724@lurza.secnetix.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020909110403.GA45152@krion>

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Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net> wrote:
 > just tested "pw" and noticed that if I add user "ku+ku"
 > 
 > su-2.05# pw useradd ki+ki
 > pw: invalid character `+' in field
 > 
 > Can we fix this error ? I have to add much users with "+" in there
 > usernames.

I think it's not a good idea, because "+" characters have
a special meaning to some programs, for example sendmail.
So it's probably a feature that pw rejects it, not a bug.

Regards
   Oliver

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