Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 11:28:23 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@giovannelli.it>, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: username with - Message-ID: <200010031728.LAA27574@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 12:27:49 CDT." <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com> References: <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com> <5.0.0.25.0.20001002082345.0256ceb0@194.184.65.4> <200010021533.JAA11398@harmony.village.org> <20001002223139.A7328@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <20001003122749.B890@ophelia.nectar.com> "Jacques A. Vidrine" writes: : > > : So, who is right ? adduser or rmuser ? : > > : > > Adduser is right. Dashes are allowed in user names. : > : > But not at the start of the user name..login(1) special cases it, I : > think. : : rmuser is broken if it won't allow you to remove users with any : character in the username besides ':' and newline. Agreed. It doesn't matter how the user was created, just that he/she/it was created and now must leave. - at the start of a name might be a particular problem due to getopt(3). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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