From: jidanni@jidanni.org Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:36:49 GMT Subject: Re: just can't live without a user.name Message-ID: <877i5vbs2m.fsf@jidanni.org> In-Reply-To: <20081220000803.GK21154@genesis.frugalware.org> 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.