From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Sep 22 10:49:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA03881 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA03833; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 10:48:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (haldjas.folklore.ee [172.17.2.1] (may be forged)) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.6/8.8.4) with SMTP id UAA02711; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:48:36 +0300 (EEST) Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:48:36 +0300 (EEST) From: Narvi To: Tom cc: Gary Palmer , John Robert LoVerso , Snob Art Genre , Studded , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Tom wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > John Robert LoVerso wrote in message ID > > <199709210325.XAA14160@loverso.southborough.ma.us>: > > > The set of valid characters in usernames have nothing to do with what an > > > Internet RFC covers. > > > > It does have relevance if you want them to get mail, or other such > > useful functions. > > Hardly. The set of all possible legal unix usernames is only a small > subset of the set of all possible RFC 821 local-parts. RFC 821 basically > allows, given the right quoting, every possible ASCII character. So who > want to allow whitepace in usernames? :) Whitespace in a username - what use could there except of confusing the heck out of the luser? That besides, I would expect it to require only very minor changes. Sander There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future - all these are just illusions. > > > Gary > > -- > > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > > > > Tom >