Bug 78276
Summary: | Cannot create users with leading numeric characters | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Julie Haugh <jfh> |
Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2004-10-13 14:58:25 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Julie Haugh
2002-11-20 19:04:35 UTC
this will create all sorts of problems for other applications that expect usernames and do independent validation/parsing. While we now allow dots and mixed case in the newest releases, I think we should generally follow common computer "identifier" principles and insist that the first letter be alphabetic. |