Re: numerical username

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:18:10 +0200


According to Anton Ivanov:
> There is a whole bunch of apps that will dislike you if the name is
> non-conventiional. ntalk for example dislikes dots, quota and other user utils
> dislike long names, etc, etc, etc.

Sure, still we have lots of users with names of 9 and 10 characters,
and things still seem to work pretty well. No complaints yet.

Mike.

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