From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 3 10:26:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB1B37B502; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:26:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ophelia.nectar.com (ophelia.nectar.com [10.5.5.2]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFA651925D; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:26:30 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by ophelia.nectar.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA00932; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:27:49 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:27:49 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Warner Losh , Gianmarco Giovannelli , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001002082345.0256ceb0@194.184.65.4> <200010021533.JAA11398@harmony.village.org> <20001002223139.A7328@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001002223139.A7328@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:31:39PM -0700 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > : So, who is right ? adduser or rmuser ? > > > > Adduser is right. Dashes are allowed in user names. > > But not at the start of the user name..login(1) special cases it, I > think. rmuser is broken if it won't allow you to remove users with any character in the username besides ':' and newline. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message