From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 8:40:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [142.154.7.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A4C14F8F for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 08:40:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id LAA11398 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 11:40:35 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 11:40:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dots in usernames? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 May 1999, Bob K wrote: > Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: a.test > Wrong username. Please use only lowercase characters or digits > Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: > > Just a quick question. If I force this by modifying this tidbit of the > adduser script: > > sub new_users_name_valid { > local($name) = @_; > > if ($name !~ /^[a-z0-9_][a-z0-9_\-]*$/ || $name eq "a-z0-9_-") { > warn "Wrong username. " . > "Please use only lowercase characters or digits\a\n"; > return 0; > > will it break anything? I know I can add an alias; I'm just hoping to > simplify things for the user in question. I suppose after doing that, a > make world & rebuild of any ports using utmp would be in order? Just realized that a make world would not be in order, since I wouldn't have changed any actual variables. Also, please cc: me in any replies, as I'm not on the list. Thanks! melange@yip.org - Mustard gas: The kids love it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message