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Author: Warner Losh
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To: Greg A. Woods
CC: Philip Hazel, exim-users
Subject: Re: ampersand in GECOS field
In message <m0vklH0-00076sC@???> Greg A. Woods writes:
: I finally checked NetBSD (and presumably all 4.4BSD's), and it's not a
: documented feature for them. Perhaps it ended with 4.3 when the new
: hashed master.passwd stuff was added?

FreeBSD documents this as a feature and ships Charlie & as the root's
username. Sendmail handles this correctly, exim does not.

Warner


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