Re: periods in user names (was /usr/afsws/etc/uss)

[Michael Niksch]

We are currently using _hostname as principals to authenticate some
server machines. The leading underscore is used to distinguish machines
from people. I'd say we need at least one special character for such
things.

While this is currently working fine with both kaserver and ptserver,
I'd like to know:

1. Is the underscore character legal?

2. Is the 8-character suggestion there only because UNIX userids are
   usually restricted to that limit?

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