[3737] in Athena Bugs
numeric usernames
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Nov 28 17:12:55 1989
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 89 17:12:28 -0500
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: moira-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Are numeric usernames supposed to be valid? All of the ones I've seen
in the past simply contain (sometimes even start with) digits, but
none had ever been just a number.
I assume this is a bug in the registration software, since there are a
number of unanswered questions brought up by this sort of situation
(e.g., what `chown 852 foo' should do, and other programs that accept
both usernames and uids).
% hesinfo 852 passwd
852:*:2553:101:Brian S Teeple,,,,:/mit/852:/bin/csh
%
-- Ken
