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List of prohibited usernames and subdomains?
1 point by jbverschoor on March 27, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Hi,

For my SAAS application, I allow people to register a subdomain as well as a username.

I'm building a list of prohibited names:

subdomains: www www2 admin mail

usernames: admin root administrator postmaster

any other suggestions?



Usernames:

hostmaster webmaster filemaster (anything ending ...master really) abuse ssl

Subdomains:

ftp smtp pop (everything listed in /etc/services) (anything related to your naming/branding) (country codes)


Ah nice one about the /etc/services I guess most of /etc/passwd should also be prohibited




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