[techtalk] logins

[Jeff Dike]

> Someone with a login that is *all* numbers is having a problem logging
> in... can login *eventually*, but never on the first try.

This isn't related to logging in, but various utilities allow specifying users 
as either login names or uids.  These can get horribly confused when a 
user-name is all numbers because they'll try to treat it as a uid.

So, that's probably not the best idea.

				Jeff



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