Am Donnerstag, 21. November 2002 10:32 schrieb Ulrich Roth:
If you want/need to have system users with dots in their names, then this doesn't work. E. g., you have a system with two users Peter Meier and Peter Huber. Why not have system user names peter.meier and peter.huber?
Why does it always have to be a dot? Ten years ago in Fido we used underscores, if I remember well, so the user names would be Peter_Meier and Peter_Huber. Or what about dashes? Or even no character (PeterMeier and PeterHuber)?
You're right - it doesn't have to be a dot. But my position is: there is no technical nor a logical reason that tells me not to use a dot. By the way, there might be situations where a dot in a username would be helpful: If your organisation already has accounts and login names that contain dots on other systems (often seen on Win32-based environments). For these users, it would be kind of comfortable to use the same account name on a Linux system, too.
But such long user names aren't shown completely when doing an "ls -la".
That's another problem of a userspace program, not of the login name. ;-) Bye Emmerich -- Emmerich Eggler Eggler Communications Wannerstrasse 3/39 CH-8045 Zürich Fon: 01 - 463 43 73 Mobile: 079 - 438 75 11