Traditionally, Unix and Unix-like systems (VMS, Linux, BSD, etc) don't
like usernames that start with a numeral. I don't believe that has
changed in Linux, but I may be wrong.
On 20 Apr, duncan wrote:
> I need to be able to add a user that is a number
>
> When I try I get the following results.
>
> [root@duncan www]# adduser 0413565739
> adduser: invalid user name `0413565739'
>
> I have only tried this on cooker and 7.0 and dont know if this is
> something new or not.
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