Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:48:41 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe <mitayai@dreaming.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: usable characters for login names Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961230174632.17378D-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <199612301920.UAA10182@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, J Wunsch wrote:
> As Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= wrote:
>
> > Then, at least underscore and dash (`_' & `-') are acceptable, right?
>
> The use of a dash is highly suspicous however, and should probably
> warned. By Internet definition, mail names belonging to persons
> should have no dash, since names containing dashes are reserved for
> mailing lists (with the implicit and often forgotten assumption, that
> you can append another `-request' to reach the maintainer of the
> list).
>From personal experience, mail names with apostrophes (') also are a
bloody pain, as you can imagine what they would do in scripts where a
string containing a username with one that it un-escaped/unisolated/whatever.
-Mit
Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe
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