Re: [PLUG] are there any forbidden group names? or numbers?

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 05:29:11PM -0400, George Gallen said:
> anything that can't be used?

That depends on the frontend.  User space utilities like addgroup and
groupadd do forbid some characters, but the lower level c function calls
don't.  They may truncate, but they don't forbid.  This is probably not
you problem, unless you have something really, really odd (like a
punycode character) in there.  Look at overlap.  Post output of commands
that actually look up groups (not higher level policy layer level things
like addgroup, low-level things like getent or id).

Take care,
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