On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 10:31 +0000, T. Horsnell wrote: > The thing that concerns me more, is the plethora of reserved > usernames. There seems to be no rule to distinguish a reserved > username (presumably the list in the RHEL sysadmin guide is > going to grow) and its only a matter of time before some > newly allocated name collides with one which has been given to > a user. In fact, I cant find anywhere what the rules are for > usernames. Character-set? How many chars? > Pity that reserved names arent systematic in some way (like > always starting with sys_ or somesuch). I suppose your best bet is to use real human name derived usernames, rather than nicknames, placenames, or technical-sounding names. The other obvious solution is run a separate box for your mail service, that's not going to have other services running on it, and carry on using what already works fine for you. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
