Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:48:48 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Bob K' <melange@yip.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: dots in usernames? Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105899@site2s1>
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That would be the e-mail message that I had in memory when I sent my reply. The way I see it, is if you've made the change and nothing's broken then why not! I think most of the wariness if from an earlier day when dots actually did break things. Now a days the mail software has to take into account that there ARE email addresses with dots in them. Maybe someone else on this list is better qualified to answer your question than I am, tho. I've noticed that most of the places that I've seen dots in user names are on Microsoft mail servers and windows NT logins. I personally have never seen them on a UNIX server. But again, just test it out and see what breaks, if nothing breaks then I don't see a problem with it. -Chris Anyone out there want to chime in as to why there shouldn't be dots in user names? > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob K [SMTP:melange@yip.org] > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 6:36 PM > To: Christopher Michaels > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: dots in usernames? > > Hmm. I searched freebsd-questions, and all I could come up with was the > following: > > ---- > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:39:39 +1000 > From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> > To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> > Cc: Kelvin <kelvin@taipingcarpets.com>, > freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Question about login name > Message-ID: <19990314113940.12057.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> > > [snip] > > It's also worth reading the man page for passwd(5), in > particular the following partial paragraph: > > The login name must never begin with a hyphen (``-''); > also, it is strongly suggested that neither upper-case > characters nor dots (``.'') be part of the name, as this > tends to confuse mailers. > > And then ask yourself if you really *need* to use this kind of > login or if it's just something you'd like. If you don't really > need it (and there must be very few reasons why you might), you > would probably be better off not to do it. > > -- > Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> > ---- > > I'm just wondering how much of a problem this poses at this point; I'm > seeing more and more email addresses with dots in the username (not to say > that just because people do it means it's a good thing ;). Sendmail 8.9.2 > certainly doesn't mind it, nor does Exim. Is there a list of mailers that > don't like this? Is there perhaps a more appropriate forum to ask this > sort of question? > > /me really should read manpages more often... > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > > > My understanding of the situation is that you don't want dots in the > > usernames because it tends to confuse mailer programs (mainly). > > Unfortunately our web proxy isn't being very cooperative at work here > today > > and I can't lookup what I'm looking for in the archives. > > > > This was a top of discussion maybe a moth ago. > > > > -Chris > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bob K [SMTP:melange@yip.org] > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:42 AM > > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > > Subject: Re: dots in usernames? > > > > > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Bob K wrote: > > > > > > > > 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! > > > > > > Damn, sorry, forgot to mention that it's 3.1-19990323-STABLE. > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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
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