This one time, at band camp, Rachel Polanskis said:
>Now we are moving to all numeric logins (not my idea, comments?)
Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha
character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C
variable names.
>where it bombs, except in a yacc file "parse.y". Now, yacc is as
>foreign to me as Sanscrit and I think I would go insane trying to
>learn it.
Yacc uses regexes, iirc. Wild guess, but I think it'd be as easy as
finding the regex for a username (hoping it's commented) and modify
that.
>Thanks - also any comments on how wonderful numeric logins can
>be is also much appreciated - I hate the concept but the PHB's
>seem to go starry eyed at the idea :/
PITA. Do the users get email accounts? mailing usernumbers looks ugly
and people don't like them, and maintaining an aliases file to match
pretty email addresses to usernumbers is a PITA, too.
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