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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: assignment of UIDs
Message-ID: <3837@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Nov-83 03:48:55 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 16 03:48:55 1983
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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Yes, all-numeric login names are not good since all system utilities
tend to look to see if an argument is all digits, and if so, doesn't
do a login name lookup.  Useful for bringing up a system with a
scrogged /etc/passwd, maybe.

Getty ignores all-numeric names because they have neither an uppercase
letter nor a lowercase letter.  That's a bug in getty.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci
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