• (nodebb)

    I was so ready for the non-ascii 4th character of "Janči" to be the problem.

  • Hanzito (unregistered) in reply to WTFGuy

    I did have to fix a Windows + non-ASCII char + ssh key problem once. It wasn't pleasant. It involved three icacls $path commands whenever the key was changed.

  • Troll (unregistered)

    Those "Linux users", always troublemakers, something always doesn't work for them. Why cannot they just be normal?

  • 516052 (unregistered) in reply to Troll

    Frankly if you ask me all operating systems were just a bad idea. The moment you start adding layers between your code and the bare metal is the moment you give up on quality and performance both.

    Sure, they look great on the brochure. Run any program on any machine. Newer have to worry about hardware specs. Etc. Etc. What they don't tell you is that this comes at the cost of introducing dependencies on the work of people you can't trust with all the bugs that come with it. And you can forget about optimization too since you can't optimize for unknown hardware.

    Yuck to it all I say. :)

  • (nodebb)

    Some Unix tools (e.g. chown) allow you to specify users and groups either by name or uid. Having an all-numeric username will confuse them, so it's a Bad Idea even if the system technically allows it. For this reason, account management tools like useradd usually prohibit them (and for simplicity they just check that the first character is not a digit).

    The WTF should be that he wasn't informed of this when he first created the account. And if this guy is a "veteran", he should have known about this.

  • Coyote (unregistered)

    This is entirely on the sysadmins of those servers. Sending the same private key to everyone? Only supporting outdated crypto? Inconsistent usernames and not letting the affected people know?

    If the server is that poorly managed, just fix it once you log in, I'm sure it won't be hard to get root.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Barry Margolin

    Oh you sweet summer child! I remember when DEC user accounts were all numeric, XXX.YY Same for Compuserve, I recall.

  • (nodebb)

    {misquote media="tv" source="The Prisoner"} I am a number! {/misquote}

  • (nodebb) in reply to cellocgw

    UICs were of the format [GGG,UUU] where each number was three digits.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Barry Margolin

    The WTF should be that he wasn't informed of this when he first created the account.

    While I agree that the system can have the right to not accept all-numeric identifiers, it is IMHO completely wrong to change the requested identifier, with or without notification. "Reject the request with a meaningful error message" is the only acceptable course of action.

  • John (unregistered)

    I'm confused. Each student got a username for every one of their multiple email aliases, except one student ?

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