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Re: Allowing @ in user names?



On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 00:45:08 +0100, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
wrote:
>I'm not sure any of the suspicions have any bearing on question #2,
>however: should adduser be allowed to add usernames of this format, when
>told to with suitable --force flags?

After having this discussed here, I am now inclined to allow @ in user
names if --force-badname was given or NAME_REGEX was configured
appropriately.

I'll make that change thursday evening unless some new arguments were
shown here.

Greetings
Marc

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