Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:04:25 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about login name Message-ID: <199903141604.KAA51966@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:39:39 %2B1000." <19990314113940.12057.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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Greg Black writes: > It's also worth reading the man page for passwd(5), in > particular the following partial paragraph: > > The login name must never begin with a hyphen (``-''); > also, it is strongly suggested that neither upper-case > characters nor dots (``.'') be part of the name, as this > tends to confuse mailers. > > And then ask yourself if you really *need* to use this kind of > login or if it's just something you'd like. If you don't really > need it (and there must be very few reasons why you might), you > would probably be better off not to do it. Am guessing Microsoft's mail server recommends administrators assign mailbox names as firstname[.middleinitial].lastname because such has become terribly widespread of late. Especially of systems that I know are using Microsoft mail servers. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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