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To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
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Subject: Re: usable characters for login names
From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@wide.ad.jp>
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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