This is going to sound a stupid question to some people, but I have my reasons.
I'm creating a webserver, using suPHP for each vhost. This way the domains files will be protected from scripting abuse. However I figure each domain is going to need it's own uid/gid. So can a username have special characters in it? i.e. could I have ubersoft.info as a username? Or is this asking for problems?
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Narusegawa wrote:So can a username have special characters in it? i.e. could I have ubersoft.info as a username? Or is this asking for problems?
So yes, ubersoft.info is a fully valid POSIX username.man useradd wrote: The account name must begin with an alphabetic character and the rest of the
string should be from the POSIX portable character class ([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_-.]*[A-Za-z0-9_-.$]).
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