Account with only number
Mogens Kjaer
mk at crc.dk
Tue Oct 24 13:39:56 UTC 2006
sasa wrote:
> Hi, I have a problem on Fedora Core 5 when I try to create a user with
> only digit (without letters), I have a waring (for security reason) but
> after that I choose ok the user isn't created but I haven't error message.
adduser 8888
seems to work for me without errors.
But numeric user names seems like a bad idea.
What if I have another user with
a UID of 8888 and I do a
chown 8888 file
who is the owner then?
Mogens
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