From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 19 19:46:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA27339 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.futuresouth.com (shell.futuresouth.com [207.141.254.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA27331 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by shell.futuresouth.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA24561; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:46:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19970919214620.01498@futuresouth.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 21:46:20 -0500 From: Tim Tsai To: Studded Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? References: <199709192214.PAA16435@mail.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > While I'm askin', it would be nice if some chars besides > letters and numbers could sneak in there too. The one I would like > most is - (the dash) but I know there are other requests. (And yes, I > know about aliases. :) Having recently converted a garbage :-) bin full of Sun Solaris boxes to FreeBSD, I am happy to report that "." works in most places. chown doesn't like it, obviously, but in those few cases I just use the uid (but then again, there are users who has strictly numeric user names!!!). While it'd have been nice to enforce the rules to start with, there were several hundred existing users who violated the rules one way or the other and it'd have been too much of a headache to contact each user directly. Tim