On 01/22/2018 06:31 PM, Daniele Nicolodi wrote: > On 1/22/18 5:31 AM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: >> On 01/22/2018 08:33 AM, Werner Koch wrote: >>> That is an acceptable user-id. I would have used a dot as delimiter but >>> that is a personal taste. >> >> Dot is a permitted part of username in POSIX though, while : is not :) > > Uh? As far as I know, the only characters not allowed are / and null.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_426 3.426 User Name A string that is used to identify a user; see also User Database. To be portable across systems conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, the value is composed of characters from the portable filename character set. The hyphen should not be used as the first character of a portable user name. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276 The set of characters from which portable filenames are constructed. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . _ - -- ---------------------------- Kristian Fiskerstrand Blog: https://blog.sumptuouscapital.com Twitter: @krifisk ---------------------------- Public OpenPGP keyblock at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3 ---------------------------- Cogito ergo sum I think, therefore I am
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