From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 14 8: 4:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9110314EFF for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 08:04:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-15-150.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.15.150]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA28576 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:04:28 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA51966 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:04:25 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199903141604.KAA51966@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Question about login name In-reply-to: Message from Greg Black of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:39:39 +1000." <19990314113940.12057.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 10:04:25 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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