From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 24 12:16:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1652637B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5765 invoked by uid 0); 24 Oct 2000 19:16:05 -0000 Received: from p3ee20aa3.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.10.163) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 24 Oct 2000 19:16:05 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16962 for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:54:23 +0200 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 18:54:23 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing user with "-" in username Message-ID: <20001024185423.J25237@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: stable@freebsd.org References: <200010231940.e9NJeeQ57835@awww.jeah.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200010231940.e9NJeeQ57835@awww.jeah.net>; from chris@awww.jeah.net on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:40:40PM -0500 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 14:40 -0500, Chris Byrnes wrote: > > awww# rmuser -y irc-argentina > Sorry, login name must contain alphanumeric characters only. While we're at it (and since I just went through this dealing with Samba and PDC functionality) -- are there any plans to add the '$' sign to the valid username characters in adduser? Or does it harm any other functionality? I haven't noticed some, but there could be pitfalls. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message