From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 15: 1:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [142.154.7.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4311525C for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:01:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA14565; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:01:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:01:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: Christopher Michaels Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: dots in usernames? In-Reply-To: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB440110588B@site2s1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, I'll go search the archives (should've done that in the first place). On Tue, 11 May 1999, Christopher Michaels wrote: > My understanding of the situation is that you don't want dots in the > usernames because it tends to confuse mailer programs (mainly). > Unfortunately our web proxy isn't being very cooperative at work here today > and I can't lookup what I'm looking for in the archives. > > This was a top of discussion maybe a moth ago. > > -Chris > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bob K [SMTP:melange@yip.org] > > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:42 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: dots in usernames? > > > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Bob K wrote: > > > > > > will it break anything? I know I can add an alias; I'm just hoping to > > > > simplify things for the user in question. I suppose after doing that, > > a > > > > make world & rebuild of any ports using utmp would be in order? > > > > > > Just realized that a make world would not be in order, since I wouldn't > > > have changed any actual variables. Also, please cc: me in any replies, > > as > > > I'm not on the list. Thanks! > > > > Damn, sorry, forgot to mention that it's 3.1-19990323-STABLE. > > > > melange@yip.org - Mustard gas: The kids love it! > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > melange@yip.org - Mustard gas: The kids love it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message