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Date:      Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:28:23 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: username with - 
Message-ID:  <200010031728.LAA27574@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:27:49 CDT." <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com> 
References:  <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com>  <5.0.0.25.0.20001002082345.0256ceb0@194.184.65.4> <200010021533.JAA11398@harmony.village.org> <20001002223139.A7328@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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In message <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com> "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes:
: > > : 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.

Agreed.  It doesn't matter how the user was created, just that
he/she/it was created and now must leave.  - at the start of a name
might be a particular problem due to getopt(3).

Warner



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