From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 19 17:02:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA19619 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA19612 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 17:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA22604; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:01:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:01:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: Tom cc: Studded , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I asked Wolfram Schneider (?) about this when I was using 2.1 and he said this was fixed in the 2.2 adduser. Underscore is AFAIK not supposed to be allowed in usernames. Hyphen is, which makes qmail's default use of hyphen as a separator in email addresses rather annoying -- to their credit, though, it's configurable. On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Tom wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Studded wrote: > > ... > > While I'm askin', it would be nice if some chars besides > > letters and numbers could sneak in there too. The one I would like > > most is - (the dash) but I know there are other requests. (And yes, I > > know about aliases. :) > > That is the foolish "adduser" imposing restrictions on you. "-" works > perfectly fine in userids. I use "-", and "_" in usernames regularly, but > I use a rather strange "adduser" that predates the one in FreeBSD. > > "adduser" is in perl. Just fix it.. err... _modify_ it :) > > > Thanks for your input, > > > > Doug > > > > Do thou amend thy face, > > and I'll amend my life. > > -Shakespeare, "Henry V" > > > > > > Tom > > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."