Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Does anyone know of existing systems that use numeric usernames?
>>Mobile phone companies all over the world that use Linux as a messaging
platform.
> There is a proposal to change `chown 1234 file` in coreutils
> to not look for a user name 1234 first, and just assume one means
> the user id 1234.
>Could be hacked around setting the numeric uid to the user's no or
username="no0882222222".
However most simply allow the user to set an alias today and this will
make life more difficult (in a minor way) for them.
> This would break systems where numeric usernames are used.
>>This seems like a Bad Idea ™
> In DCU at least I remember we had 8 digit usernames.
> Is that still the case?
>> Pádraig.
>Just my thoughts, Philip
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