Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:35:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: dots in usernames? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905111829020.59633-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110588B@site2s1>
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Hmm. I searched freebsd-questions, and all I could come up with was the
following:
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:39:39 +1000
From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
Cc: Kelvin <kelvin@taipingcarpets.com>,
freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Question about login name
Message-ID: <19990314113940.12057.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
[snip]
It's also worth reading the man page for passwd(5), in
particular the following partial paragraph:
The login name must never begin with a hyphen (``-'');
also, it is strongly suggested that neither upper-case
characters nor dots (``.'') be part of the name, as this
tends to confuse mailers.
And then ask yourself if you really *need* to use this kind of
login or if it's just something you'd like. If you don't really
need it (and there must be very few reasons why you might), you
would probably be better off not to do it.
--
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
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I'm just wondering how much of a problem this poses at this point; I'm
seeing more and more email addresses with dots in the username (not to say
that just because people do it means it's a good thing ;). Sendmail 8.9.2
certainly doesn't mind it, nor does Exim. Is there a list of mailers that
don't like this? Is there perhaps a more appropriate forum to ask this
sort of question?
/me really should read manpages more often...
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote:
> My understanding of the situation is that you don't want dots in the
> usernames because it tends to confuse mailer programs (mainly).
> Unfortunately our web proxy isn't being very cooperative at work here today
> and I can't lookup what I'm looking for in the archives.
>
> This was a top of discussion maybe a moth ago.
>
> -Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob K [SMTP:melange@yip.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:42 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: dots in usernames?
> >
> > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Bob K wrote:
> >
> > > > will it break anything? I know I can add an alias; I'm just hoping to
> > > > simplify things for the user in question. I suppose after doing that,
> > a
> > > > make world & rebuild of any ports using utmp would be in order?
> > >
> > > Just realized that a make world would not be in order, since I wouldn't
> > > have changed any actual variables. Also, please cc: me in any replies,
> > as
> > > I'm not on the list. Thanks!
> >
> > Damn, sorry, forgot to mention that it's 3.1-19990323-STABLE.
> >
> > melange@yip.org - Mustard gas: The kids love it!
> >
> >
> >
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