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From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Subject: Re: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH]
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The following reply was made to PR bin/31049; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
To: "Yar Tikhiy" <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>,
	<freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH]
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 08:51:36 -0700

 On Thursday 11 October 2001 08:11 am, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > Could you quote POSIX on the characters allowed in usernames?
 > What characters are allowed? This question has to do with the fact
 > that "adduser" and "pw" use inconsistent algorithms of validating a
 > username,
 > so I'd like to fix both.
 
 
 This is grom Garrett:
 
 From XBDd6 section 3.426 says:
 
 User Name
         A string that is used to identify a user; see also Section
         3.424 (on page 90). To be portable across systems conforming
         to IEEE Std 1003.1-200x, the value is composed of characters
         from the portable filename character set. The hyphen should
         not be used as the first character of a portable user name.
 
 - JimP
 
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