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Re: [cobalt-security] user name = user
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-security] user name = user
- From: Bill Irwin <bill_irwin@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 11:03:44 -0400
- List-id: Mailing list for users to address network security on Cobalt products. <cobalt-security.list.cobalt.com>
"Kai Schantz, Euroweb" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> One of our customer has made an user acount with the following data:
>
> full name: user name
> user name: user
> email alias: user.name
>
> I think this look a little rare and maybe there is some security
> problem/holes with this?
> Anybody now how to make this imposible for users to make acountnames like
> this?
> This was on a raq4r..
>
> Kai Schantz
> Euroweb AS
Kai,
There are some usernames which are reserved on the system. You will have
to look in the knowledgebase for which ones are reserved. Also remember
there can only be ONE unique username on each server.
--
Bill Irwin
Technical Support Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.