Re: About valid and invalid user names
On 05-Feb-05, 10:47 (CST), Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> wrote:
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> Because '.' is POSIX, thus valid. And not accepting the '.' is a damn
> bug in any POSIX-compliant utility.
According the SUS section that Kurt quoted, leading digits are equally
acceptable. I think it might be reasonable to accept leading digits when
there is at least one non-digit in the name.
Steve
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