21 Nov
2002
21 Nov
'02
09:32
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)? But such long user names aren't shown completely when doing an "ls -la". Bye Uli -- Ulrich Roth IMPACT Business & Technology Consulting GmbH Im Mediapark 8 / KölnTurm D-50670 Koeln Phone +49-221-93 70 80-29 Fax +49-221-93 70 80-15 E-Mail: roth@impact.de