Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 10:14:48 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: Adam David <adam@veda.is> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: numeric UID/GID names? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970715101253.3971B-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <199707151030.KAA23198@ubiq.veda.is>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Adam David wrote: > Are there any problems involved with giving users/groups all-numeric names, > in addition to the confusion that could exist when for instance UID number > 1234 is named 4321 (or 5678)? > > What problems might this confusion give rise to? Which are human-based > and which are programmatical? It would depend on the program... Some programs do a atoi(3) to determine if the 'value' is a UID or UNAME. The human errors should be more than enough reason to avoid this though and go with an alternate naming scheme; instead of user '4321' how about user 'u4321'? -- David Cross
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