On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:39 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > 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 I suspect it owulf be the user with the login name 8888. BUt I admit it is confusing and not a good idea to have login names be all numbers. -- ======================================================================= It's gonna be alright, It's almost midnight, And I've got two more bottles of wine. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
