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Re: About valid and invalid user names



On Sat, 05 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:
> adduser has two bug reports open where people are asking for user name
> rules to be relaxed. One report wants "." to be allowed in user names,
> another wants usernames to start with numbers.

Allowing the dot is ok.  I do think that usernames starting with numbers is
asking for total breakage, though.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
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