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| From: | Joe User <mailinglists@×××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] usernames starting w/ digit | ||
| Date: | Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:33:02 | ||
| Message-Id: | 485FB417.4090004@rootservice.org | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] usernames starting w/ digit by Enrico Weigelt |
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| 1 | Enrico Weigelt schrieb: |
| 2 | > Hi folks, |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > while migrating stuff to an fresh Gentoo box, I've recognized |
| 6 | > that useradd doesn't accept usernames starting with a digit |
| 7 | > (while manually changing in passwd still seems to work fine). |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > Why does Gentoo's useradd doesnt accept usernames starting |
| 10 | > digits, while other distros do ? |
| 11 | > |
| 12 | > |
| 13 | > cu |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Hi, |
| 16 | |
| 17 | look at shadow-$version/libmisc/chkname.c and the gentoo patches. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Regards, |
| 20 | Joe User |
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