From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 3 10:28:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B9F37B503; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e93HSNM10396; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:28:24 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id LAA27574; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:28:23 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200010031728.LAA27574@harmony.village.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" Subject: Re: username with - Cc: Kris Kennaway , Gianmarco Giovannelli , stable@FreeBSD.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> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:28:23 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message