>Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 14:15:12 -0400 (EDT) >From: Bob K <mela...@yip.org>
>People on -current: Just to recap, adduser (and rmuser) disallow .'s in >usernames on FreeBSD-stable; passwd(5) cites that some mailers have >problems with dots in usernames. However, they are becoming more common, >and are a legal part of rfc821. So what are people's thoughts on allowing >that in -current, and if there's no complaints, backporting it to -stable? >It seems really really trivial... Syntax for valid mailboxes need not correspond to (but should be a superset of, IMO) syntax for usernames. What's the problem you're trying to solve? Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator d...@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
