From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 11 15:35:47 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 16E9914FB7 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:35:42 -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 SAA14860; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:35:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:35:41 -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 Hmm. I searched freebsd-questions, and all I could come up with was the following: ---- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:39:39 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Kelvin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about login name Message-ID: <19990314113940.12057.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> [snip] 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. -- Greg Black ---- I'm just wondering how much of a problem this poses at this point; I'm seeing more and more email addresses with dots in the username (not to say that just because people do it means it's a good thing ;). Sendmail 8.9.2 certainly doesn't mind it, nor does Exim. Is there a list of mailers that don't like this? Is there perhaps a more appropriate forum to ask this sort of question? /me really should read manpages more often... 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