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From: Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
Subject: Re: misc/42590: pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
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The following reply was made to PR misc/42590; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
To: Kirill Ponomarew <ponomarew@oberon.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/42590: pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 15:22:59 +0200 (CEST)

 On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Kirill Ponomarew wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
 
 ..., thankfully. :-)
 
 Read the manual page for passwd(5), under the "YP/NIS INTERACTION" heading.
 
 (regardless of this, '+' isn't among the characters permitted in login
 names.  I don't know which particular standard specified this, but it's
 fairly established now; consider e g the use of username+foobar@whatever
 to turn one's mail addresses into a namespace of sorts.)
 
 B
 

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