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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:25:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        John Robert LoVerso <john@loverso.southborough.ma.us>, Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>, Studded <Studded@dal.net>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921231850.5076C-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <24763.874893252@orion.webspan.net>

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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Gary Palmer wrote:

> John Robert LoVerso wrote in message ID
> <199709210325.XAA14160@loverso.southborough.ma.us>:
> > The set of valid characters in usernames have nothing to do with what an
> > Internet RFC covers.
> 
> It does have relevance if you want them to get mail, or other such
> useful functions.

  Hardly.  The set of all possible legal unix usernames is only a small
subset of the set of all possible RFC 821 local-parts.  RFC 821 basically
allows, given the right quoting, every possible ASCII character.  So who
want to allow whitepace in usernames? :)

> Gary
> --
> Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
> FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
> 

Tom




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