[clug] Username
Bryan Kilgallin
bryan at netspeed.com.au
Mon Sep 19 17:42:43 UTC 2016
I received a hand-me-down laptop. Set up with a simple and guessable
username. So now I want to replace the latter.
I recall that passwords were supposed to be strange. Is such applicable
to usernames as well?
I wanted an idea of rules and conventions. So I found the following.
What's that about starting lowercase? And I read somewhere else that `.'
was forbidden.
{([a-z_][a-z0-9_]{0,30}) reads as "a lowercase or underscore, followed
by zero to thirty alphanumeric characters", meaning the total length of
the username can be 31 characters.}
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6949667/what-are-the-real-rules-for-linux-usernames-on-centos-6-and-rhel-6
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