On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 12:48:09AM +0000, Julián Muñoz Domínguez wrote: > I have got the "fabulous" idea to create some logins using ":", and pam > refuses them, even before to pass them to the corresponding > authentication module. > I need a kind of escape character (non alphanumeric) in the login, for and > application who uses pam. > So I would like to know: what is the valid character set for login ? > I don't find anything specifying it. I don't know that there is a canonical set of characters allowed in usernames; but the ':' character is absolutely forbidden, because it's the delimiter character in /etc/passwd. Other punctuation characters that you could use might be the period (.), the comma (,), or the percent sign (%)... These should all be valid, and they're probably the ones that will give you the least problems when using them in a shell. BTW -- what are you trying to escape with this? Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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