Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:37:56 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> Cc: cjclark@home.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periods in usernames? Message-ID: <20000112033756.8907D148@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:09:19 PST." <4.2.0.58.20000111190757.01bce940@mail.cpl.net>
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In message <4.2.0.58.20000111190757.01bce940@mail.cpl.net>, Shawn Ramsey wrote: } 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. It used to be (and still is, on some UNIXen) that chown would accept "dot notation" to also do a chgrp; in other words, $ chown user.group /tmp/blat would change the owner and group on /tmp/blat. Many implementations have since changed their chown to use user:group instead, which is safer, but for compatibility reasons, using dots in usernames is not recommended. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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