From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 30 14:59:04 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA26918 for current-outgoing; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA26913 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 14:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0veqfX-0008uPC; Mon, 30 Dec 96 14:58 PST Received: from localhost (mitayai@localhost) by dreamlabs.dreaming.org (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA18221; Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:48:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:48:41 -0500 (EST) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: usable characters for login names In-Reply-To: <199612301920.UAA10182@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 The DreamLabs Network http://www.dreaming.org (705)741-1089