On 07/10/2006 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 06:32:31PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > Hi, > > > > in #389160, the bug submitter suggests allowing @ in user names, which > > adduser currently does not even allow when called with > > --force-badname. > > > > Is there any potential breakage to allow adduser --force-badname to > > create accounts with @ in user names? > > > > I'm thinking of this slightly obscure service called email. It might > possibly be affected by such brain damage. Why can't the bug submitter > make to with +, ., and other such characters? i know of servers which create system accounts for email users (pop3 and imap) with the complete email address (user@host) as username. so especially for email addresses, the @ in system accounts might be interesting, given that the MTA supports this scenario. ... joans
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