Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 05:27:16 +0900 From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@wide.ad.jp> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: max@wide.ad.jp, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usable characters for login names Message-ID: <199612292027.FAA07801@mail.tky007.tth.expo96.ad.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 29 Dec 1996 20:26:16 %2B0100" References: <199612291926.UAA03797@campa.panke.de>
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wosch> Illegal characters are characters which break password
wosch> database (':', '\0', '\n'), group database (comma, spaces),
wosch> mail addresses (many characters), or any other important
wosch> program.
wosch> Only characters which are on any keyboard in the world
wosch> should be used.
Then, at least underscore and dash (`_' & `-') are acceptable, right?
(Well probably only if they are not used to begin the user name.) If
so, we should modify adduser and pw.
Max
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