Re: about useradd accountname rules

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Helmut Hullen wrote:

> 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.

Also there is no RFC which forbids use patched useradd .. :)

This kind things aren't described in RFC but in Posix specyfications.

kloczek
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