Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 13:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To: Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se>
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/42590: pw doesn't accept "+" in usernames
Message-ID: <200209091709.g89H9gtn066029@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 06:30:03 -0700 (PDT), Magnus B{ckstr|m <b@etek.chalmers.se> said:
> (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;
User and group names should consist of characters taken from the
Portable Filename Character Set, which is the set matched by the
glob [-._a-zA-Z0-9]. See IEEE Std. 1003.1-2001 section 3.426.
-GAWollman
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