From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 04:11:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0C416A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:11:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76E1243D2F for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:11:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-161-115-118.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.115.118]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAO4B3Dt030917 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:11:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41A409C1.7040508@mac.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:10:41 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: KZ References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: login name has a @ in it X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:11:09 -0000 KZ wrote: > my login name has an @ in it how do i login? > every time i type @ it erases my login > > i'm using a tibook OSX 10.3.6 Questions about MacOS X belong elsewhere, but it is strongly recommended that you choose usernames which contain only lower-case alphanumeric characters, and are 8 or fewer characters in length. -- -Chuck