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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:03:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        shawn@megadeth.org (Shawn Ramsey)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: periods in usernames?
Message-ID:  <200001120203.VAA09223@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000111140021.01b98840@mail.cpl.net> from Shawn Ramsey at "Jan 11, 2000 02:01:55 pm"

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Shawn Ramsey wrote,
> Is there any particular reason the adduser script will not accept periods 
> in user accounts? 

'Cause the documentation says so. From adduser(1),

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RESTRICTIONS
     username
             Login name. May contain only  lowercase characters or digits.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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