What are the valid characters in a username or groupname?
Issue
- Need to know the user name/group name character restriction and maximum character length allowed.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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