[plug] re: User names

[John Summerfield]

> On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, this is what I've done, I was just wondering if there is a rule
> > that states do not use "." in creating user names. 
> 
> It's not recommended.
> Even though you could probably get it to work on your system and not see
> any side-effects, chances are down the track you will install some utility
> (or write a script) that doesn't expect to see a . in a username.
> A good example is the chown command, where you can set the userid and
> groupid of a file at the same time by seperating them by a .
or a colon


The fact is that other organisations DO use them, ABC and USQ, MHRI among 
them.


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