Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:40:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Bob K <melange@yip.org>, Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dots in usernames? Message-ID: <19990512134034.A65753@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199905121833.UAA05194@greenpeace.grondar.za>; from "Mark Murray" on Wed May 12 20:32:59 GMT 1999 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905121338020.59633-100000@localhost> <199905121833.UAA05194@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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In the last episode (May 12), Mark Murray said:
> Bob K wrote:
> > Well, I did some reading through rfc821, and an email address is
> > defined as follows:
>
> Email addresses != Usernames. What this suggests to me is that having
> an _alias_ (say) Mark.Murray to markmurray in /etc/aliases is OK.
but, from the chown manpage:
COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (`.')
character to distinguish the group name. This has been changed to
be a colon (`:') character so that user and group names may
contain the dot character.
So it sounds like the rest of the system is leaning toward allowing
dots in usernames as well.
-Dan Nelson
dnelson@emsphone.com
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