Re: mandated charceters in usernames

[Alan Shutko]

Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Why, in what RFC is this specified?

It's not an internet thing, it's a Unix thing.  So it's more likely in
POSIX or something (not that I know for sure).

The biggest reason is that there are lots of utilities which determine
if you're passing a username or user number by looking at the first
character.


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