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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:27:49 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: username with -
Message-ID:  <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001002223139.A7328@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:31:39PM -0700
References:  <5.0.0.25.0.20001002082345.0256ceb0@194.184.65.4> <200010021533.JAA11398@harmony.village.org> <20001002223139.A7328@freefall.freebsd.org>

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> > : So, who is right ? adduser or rmuser ?
> > 
> > Adduser is right.  Dashes are allowed in user names.
> 
> But not at the start of the user name..login(1) special cases it, I
> think.

rmuser is broken if it won't allow you to remove users with any
character in the username besides ':' and newline.
-- 
Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org


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