LOGNAME (Was: Re: procmail: small filters need sleep 1)

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 09:51:01AM -0500, David W. Tamkin wrote:
> I just wrote,
>
> > What sort of characters are going to be in $LOGNAME that need escaping?
> > Question marks?  Asterisks?  Parentheses?  Plus signs?  Backslashes?
> Or periods or left brackets, maybe?  None of those should be in $LOGNAME.
It seems to me that periods could very easily be in $LOGNAME.  Why not?
I have one account where I am "dallman.ross".  (But I don't have shell
access there.)

-- 
dman

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