Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (376 mails)

["Volker Lieder" <v.lieder@xxxxxx>]

> For the "dotted" name the only solution I know is to rename the username
> after adding her/ him to the system in /etc...
>
Hi there,
i use the program webmin to add users with a "." in the name. It ist
available under www.webmin.com
There you also can choose an other home-path for the user, for example:
v.lieder, home/vlieder and so on....
Works fine,
V.Lieder

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> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, lars wrote:
> > on a suse linux 8.1 box, doing
> >
> > useradd -s /bin/false -d /... and-so-on ... b.richards
> >
> > to add a mailuseraccount, I always got the reply:
> >
> > invalid username
> >
> > The same with
> >
> > useradd -s /bin/false -d /... and-so-on b\.richards
> >
> > OK, then I´m typing ³useradd brichards², editing the
> /etc/passwd as well as
> > /etc/shadow (e.g. setting in the dot manually), then typing in
> the password,
....