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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?
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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