[plug] re: User names

[David Bastow]

On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, John Summerfield wrote:

> > 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.
> 
>