On 15 January 1998 Tony Mauro wrote;
Hi,
TM> I notice that the AFS Command Reference page for `pts createuser' says
TM> that an AFS user name
TM> may contain up to 63 numbers and lowercase letters. [...the second
TM> sentence suggests making them eight characters or less...] Also,
TM> do not include any characters consdiered special in UNIX,
TM> particularly the colon and period.
TM> I have made a note to include this statement on the pages for `kas
TM> create' and `uss add' also, in the AFS 3.5 documentation. I will also
TM> try to obtain an exact list of the prohibited "special characters."
As Ken Hornstein wrote Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:19:09 -0500 about dots in
instances, our site also have a lot of rcmd.<computername> in our KA
database and it works okey.
And my mem.admin works well in allmost all AFS programs. For the moment I
would be glad if Transarc could fix the uss command, and I will send a bug
report via our site contacts.
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