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Re: Weird user name

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Fri Sep 9 23:00:26 1994

Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 23:00:15 +0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
Cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jim Haynes's message of Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:44:52 -0700,
	<199409052244.PAA20911@hobbes.UCSC.EDU>

   From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
   Date: Mon, 5 Sep 1994 15:44:52 -0700

   We had a user choose the login name "/usr/bin"    Cute, huh?  Needless to
   say a number of things don't work with that choice of name.

At Athena, our user registration program prevents choices such as
/usr/bin....

						- Ted


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