In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111160055520.3526-100000@rfhpc8317>,
Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> wrote:
>
>It's been brought to my attention that there might be desires to use
>spaces and $s in login names[*], and I wonder if there's a really good
>reason (besides the obvious ones :-) to not allow all but ':' in login
>names? (If admins want it, give 'em the rope etc.)
>
>The following patch works at least on 1.5.3_ALPHA, and I'd like to commit
>it if there are no major objections:

You definitely don't want to allow unprintable characters.

christos