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Subject: Re: just can't live without a user.name
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MV> I said you can use utf-8 in the user.name field and showed you an example
But I want to use null or (my favorite string of) ASCII.
Anyway no program so far on UNIX broke with just
$ grep $USER /etc/passwd
jidanni:x:1000:1000:,,,:/home/jidanni:/bin/bash
except git.