Re: Usernames with dots

         Well the weird thing is that if I use the useradd function to 
create the account it actually creates the accounts now.
i.e.
         useradd -u 503 -s /bin/csh -d /home/john.smith -p password john.smith

nothing would appear in the appropriate passwd files, nor would the home 
directory be built. Now though it seems to work.
         Although previously I had been using the Red Hat 8 GUI for users 
and groups and that never worked. Maybe its a flaw in that?

I'll check it out and get back to the list with that.

Lionel M. Worman
Information Technology Coordinator
Wittenberg University

At 09:04 PM 07/31/2003 -0700, jim car wrote:
>Lionel,
>
>What do you mean that the account is not actually built?
>
>One of the servers that I am a sys admin of has accounts with periods in it.
>We do not use LDAP authentication with it though, so I don't know if that
>is your problem or not.
>
>On the desktop - MacOS X
>In the server room - Linux
>Windows? In the trash?
>
>
>
>
>>From: "Lionel M. Worman" <[email protected]>
>>Reply-To: [email protected]
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: Usernames with dots
>>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:29:35 -0400
>>
>>We use dots in our usernames for LDAP, sort of like
>>John.Smith
>>
>>But when I try to create a similar account in Red Hat 8.0 so that I can 
>>use LDAP authentication the account is never actually built.
>>
>>Any ideas on how to create accounts with dots in the names in Red Hat?
>>
>>Lionel M. Worman
>>Information Technology Coordinator
>>Wittenberg University
>>
>>
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