Quoting cody chandler <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > OpenBSD 5.1 -Release. 4 installs tested. During install when it first > asks do I want to creat a user. It does not allow me to creat the user > name > II00I00II. But after the install I can use useradd or adduser and am > able > to login with the user. Another issue I came accross. In the sudoers > file > I have 2 names under root and not using the wheel group but using the > name > for sudoers. The 2nd name works but this name "II00I00II" does not work > with sudo. Is there a reason for this to not work as expected? To > clairify the name is capital i's with number 0's. >
Same sort of thing bit me when using periods in the user name: http://old.nabble.com/Installer-adding-user---doesn%27t-allow-periods-in-user-name-td30129803.html The installer is more strict about the permitted user names. See also man adduser. > Thanks > Cody
