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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/passwd.5 | 24 |
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 index c49b0f7..a5c2935 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 @@ -129,19 +129,29 @@ Routines that manipulate these files will often return only one of the multiple entries, and that one by random selection. .Pp -The login name must never begin with a hyphen -.Pq Ql - ; -also, it is strongly -suggested that neither upper-case characters or dots -.Pq Ql \&. -be part -of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. +The login name must not begin with a hyphen +.Pq Ql \&- , +and cannot contain 8-bit characters, tabs or spaces, or any of these +symbols: +.Ql \&,:+&#%^\&(\&)!@~*?<>=|\e\\&/" . +The dollar symbol +.Pq Ql \&$ +is allowed only as the last character for use with Samba. No field may contain a colon .Pq Ql \&: as this has been used historically to separate the fields in the user database. .Pp +Case is significant. +Login names +.Ql Lrrr +and +.Ql lrrr +represent different users. +Be aware of this when interoperating with systems that do not have +case-sensitive login names. +.Pp In the .Nm master.passwd file, |
