Usernames without alpha characters

[Simon Matter]

> * Tore Anderson
>
>  >   Hi.  I've run into problems with usernames like "123" or "1_1".
>  >  What seems to be the common thing is that that none of them
>  > contains alphabetic characters.  Cyradm creates them just fine
>  > (although they for some reason is created under the "q" directory
>  > when using a hashed spool), and lmtpd delivers to them just fine.
>  >
>  >   However, logging into those accounts with POP3 or IMAP fails in
>  >  mysterious ways.
>
>   After some more digging, I found the following in lib/auth_unix.c,
>  function auth_canonifyid():
>
>     if (!sawalpha) return NULL;  /* has to be one alpha char */
>
>   Certainly looks like the "bug" isn't there by mistake.  :-)  It is
>  tempting to simply comment out that check. On the other hand, I assume
>  there's a reason for that check to be there.
>
>   But what that reason is I don't know.  Could anyone enlighten me?

I have no idea why this restriction exists but there is a patch somewhere
to make all numeric mailboxes possible.

Simon


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