Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:09:19 -0800 From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periods in usernames? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000111190757.01bce940@mail.cpl.net> In-Reply-To: <200001120203.VAA09223@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <4.2.0.58.20000111140021.01b98840@mail.cpl.net>
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At 09:03 PM 1/11/00 -0500, you wrote: >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), > >. >. >. >RESTRICTIONS > username > Login name. May contain only lowercase characters or digits. Uh, yeah, but my question was more along the lines of WHY it was written this way. :) Is this any reason user names should not have a period? Im sure the script would be easy enough to modify to accept a period. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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