From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 12 11:35:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [142.154.7.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79AEB14C7F for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id OAA24522; Wed, 12 May 1999 14:35:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:35:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: David Wolfskill Cc: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: dots in usernames? In-Reply-To: <199905121824.LAA25988@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 May 1999, David Wolfskill wrote: > >Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT) > >From: Bob K > > >People on -current: Just to recap, adduser (and rmuser) disallow .'s in > >usernames on FreeBSD-stable; passwd(5) cites that some mailers have > >problems with dots in usernames. However, they are becoming more common, > >and are a legal part of rfc821. So what are people's thoughts on allowing > >that in -current, and if there's no complaints, backporting it to -stable? > >It seems really really trivial... > > Syntax for valid mailboxes need not correspond to (but should be a > superset of, IMO) syntax for usernames. > > What's the problem you're trying to solve? I'm hoping to simplify things for my users so that they don't need to have a different email address from their username if they have a dot in the local-part. melange@yip.org - Mustard gas: The kids love it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message