From owner-freebsd-stable  Sun Sep 21 23:25:28 1997
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA18195
          for stable-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:25:28 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail.uniserve.com (dns1-van.uniserve.com [204.244.163.48])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA18182;
          Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:25:18 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] 
	by mail.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1)
	id 0xD1vk-0007jm-00; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:25:12 -0700
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 
In-Reply-To: <24763.874893252@orion.webspan.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921231850.5076C-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk


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