Re: about useradd accountname rules

[email protected] (Helmut Hullen) 25 Jul 2005 13:49:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general
Organization	Hullen
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hallo, Tomasz,

Du meintest am 25.07.05 zum Thema Re: about useradd accountname rules:

>> How to let useradd accept the login id which include the dot "."
>> ???

> "." is used by chown as delimiter between user and group.

The preferred delimiter is ":".
Many providers accept user names with a "." - "shadow" should do so  
too, without any restriction.

There is no RFC which forbids such a sign in the user name.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut