On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 07:24:57PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:52:10AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yar Tikhiy writes: > > : Is there any reason to omit the period ('.') from the list of valid > > : characters? With the period included, the list would conform to > > : POSIX's definition of a valid user name. > > > > Not any more. it used to be that chown user.group would be > > ambiguous. now it isn't, since user:group is the right syntax. > > This might be a problem for NIS or Kerberos domains - an older version > of FreeBSD might be confuzzled by usernames which are perfectly valid > for the rest of the client boxes.
Oh, I see. Given that the only issue about the period in user names is compatibility, should pw(8) and adduser(8) still reject it or accept it and print a warning? I think printing a warning is better since the validity check is by no means a panacea--a stupid admin can always use vipw(8) to create any kind of an invalid user name. -- Yar To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
