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On 20 Apr 00, at 14:08, Gary Bunker wrote:
> So, there is a good reason that Unix hates usernames that are numbers. I
> don't know if manually creating one will do anything funky, but I'd bet it
> won't work perfectly for some reason.
>
I suspect it _will_ work, but I'll be interested to hear the result of the
experiment either way.
I can't imagine that there'll be any problem creating the user, but, as
Gary suggests, the test will come when the user logs in and tries to do
some real work.
Incidentally, my user name is "N7DR" (that's right, with uppercase
characters). It's interesting to observe how, even though I can log in with
that username (which is more than can be said for some Unices I've used), I
sometimes have to switch to lowercase while I'm working in order to do some
things.
Doc Evans
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