[CentOS] Why are dots in username & groupname no longer allowed?
Josh Kelley
joshkel at gmail.com
Fri Jan 6 16:10:04 UTC 2006
On 1/5/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> BUT, the I think that the real reason that dots should not be allowed in
> user names is because this doesn't allow dots:
>
> RFC 4282 - The Network Access Identifier
>
> There is no requirement to follow this for usernames; however, I think
> we should.
Unless I'm misreading the RFC, it does allow dots in usernames?
nai = username
nai =/ "@" realm
nai =/ username "@" realm
username = dot-string
dot-string = string
dot-string =/ dot-string "." string
Josh Kelley
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