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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/groupadd.8.xml b/man/groupadd.8.xml index 26671f92..61a548f7 100644 --- a/man/groupadd.8.xml +++ b/man/groupadd.8.xml @@ -64,10 +64,12 @@ files as needed. </para> <para> - Groupnames must start with a lower case letter or an underscore, - followed by lower case letters, digits, underscores, or dashes. - They can end with a dollar sign. - In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? + Groupnames may contain only lower and upper case letters, digits, + underscores, or dashes. They can end with a dollar sign. + + Dashes are not allowed at the beginning of the groupname. + Fully numeric groupnames and groupnames . or .. are + also disallowed. </para> <para> Groupnames may only be up to &GROUP_NAME_MAX_LENGTH; characters long. |