In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On 10/7/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any potential breakage to allow adduser --force-badname to >> create accounts with @ in user names? > >The only thing that immediately comes to mind is that of a MTA that >has to deliver mail for this user. For example, when cron runs a job >and needs to send the output to the owner of the cronjob, there will >be some ambiguity as to whether the part after the @ is part of the >username or in fact a domain name. This is especially true when >setting MAILTO in a crontab.
Ditto tools like ssh, where @ is assumed to be a separator between local part and machine name. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
