Invalid user name: starting with a digit
Justin Willmert
justin at jdjlab.com
Thu Sep 8 03:03:46 UTC 2005
Les Mikesell wrote:
> If I did something like that I'd forever live in fear that
> a needed utility would mis-parse the user name as a
> uid number and do something horrible. Chown/chgrp
> _might_ be smart enough these days to tell the difference
> but I wouldn't count on it always working with every
> program that you might use.
>
So far, I haven't had any problems with username/uid interpretation
problems, but then again, the account is pretty much limited to
providing email and a password for web iterfaces, so more advance setups
may run into a problem.
You had a very good point I hadn't considered. Good thinking.
Justin
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