Re: [TCLUG:8560] username stuff

[Michael Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

> 1) username must be 1-8 chars
> 2) The first char must be a letter
> 3) none of: ':','=',','
> 4) no control characters
> 
> What other chars are verboten?
> Are there any other restrictions?

Well, it might be a good idea to not mix upper/lowercase letters. When I first
started with Linux, I had the username on my system set to "Mike", which
Sendmail didn't know how to handle -- it was expecting the name to be all
lower-case, I guess.  Anyway, I don't know if that's a problem anymore (this
was three years ago..)

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