On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:07:21PM +0900, Ben Gertzfield wrote:
>
> It seems to work fine for our tens of thousands of users at the
> company for which I designed a system using this method. It's
> certainly better than the old system, where each user had several
> accounts with usernames like "me723827" and random passwords.
>
> Many applications just won't allow @ in usernames. Netscape's mail
> client is one. Using a _ instead is simple and works great in every
> application I've found.
We've also found that Netscape's mail client does not like @ in the username.
There is, however, a fix. All you have to do is find your prefs.js file (or
preferences.js in Unix) and add:
user_prefs("mail.allow_at_sign_in_user_name"), true);
to the file. I've tried this w/ Debian Linux (Unstable) and Netscape 4.77 and
it worked fine. It seems to work for our Windows users too. Otherwise, we've
had no other problems with using the @ in the username field, for e-mail and
FTP.
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Brendon Colby
Systems Administrator
Midcontinent Communications
