NISplus disallows it, credentials collision, I'm unaware of
another other restrictions.


On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:40:19PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 18:23, stan wrote:
> >
> > OK, so this should work, right?
> >
> > 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
> > 1XX.XX.113.24   amanda.meadwestvaco.com amanda
> >
> Isn't it generally considered bad practice to have a hostname and username 
> identical?
> 
> Anne


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