Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 14:28:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: "Alex G. Bulushev" <bag@sinbin.demos.su> Cc: Studded@dal.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921142803.22771M-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199709211121.PAA20344@sinbin.demos.su>
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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Alex G. Bulushev wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Studded wrote: > > > > ... > > > 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. :) > > > > That is the foolish "adduser" imposing restrictions on you. "-" works > > perfectly fine in userids. I use "-", and "_" in usernames regularly, but > > I use a rather strange "adduser" that predates the one in FreeBSD. > > some problem exist to use "-" in the user names with rlogin > rlogind check "-" ... but rlogin is not popular now ... slogin is :) > > Alex. rlogind used to be too strict and not allow "-" at all, but I belive it now only fails if the first character is "-". Tom
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