Hi folks,


while migrating stuff to an fresh Gentoo box, I've recognized
that useradd doesn't accept usernames starting with a digit
(while manually changing in passwd still seems to work fine).

Why does Gentoo's useradd doesnt accept usernames starting
digits, while other distros do ?


cu
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Enrico Weigelt schrieb:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> while migrating stuff to an fresh Gentoo box, I've recognized
> that useradd doesn't accept usernames starting with a digit
> (while manually changing in passwd still seems to work fine).
>
> Why does Gentoo's useradd doesnt accept usernames starting
> digits, while other distros do ?
>
>
> cu

Hi,

look at shadow-$version/libmisc/chkname.c and the gentoo patches.

Regards,
Joe User
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