On Sat, 7 Oct 2006 18:46:08 +0200, "Izak Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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.
Exim4 does not accept mail for user accounts with @ in the local part over SMTP and correctly handles local mail if properly quoted. In this case, if anything regarding e-mail breaks, I think that the local admin gets to keep both pieces. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
