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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