From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Oct 5 13:37:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BB337B407 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a035.otenet.gr [212.205.215.35]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f95KbAv08789; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:37:10 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f95KbAw01316; Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:37:10 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 23:37:10 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/31049: /usr/sbin/adduser does not allow '.' in login name. [PATCH] Message-ID: <20011005233710.A1304@hades.hell.gr> References: <200110042250.f94Mo1K85204@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011005082606.C23509@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <3BBDD63E.709C01EF@disney.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BBDD63E.709C01EF@disney.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Pirzyk wrote: > Ceri wrote: > > > > Even better, could you make it ``Bad username'' instead of ``Wrong username'' ? > > > > Ceri > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message > > How about 'Invalid username' since it just does not conform > to the semantics that adduser understands. I like `invalid' better, but `bad' seems to be more user-friendly. If you ask me, I would vote for `invalid' though. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message