Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (376 mails)

["Mario" <marioj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    The reason is that SuSE modified the useradd interface program from 7.x
to 8.x. Usernames with "dots" are no more accepted, although everybody use
it.

    I´ve got the same problem and as I didn´t receive ANY help from this
list ( besides saying "this is not a security related question") neither
from SuSE Support Team, I had to edit useradd source code by myself.

    Good luck,


Mário Júnior
----------------------
Network Admin

----- Original Message -----
From: "lars" <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <suse-security@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 10:33 AM
Subject: [suse-security] How to handle usernames?


Hi there,

I´ve got a strange behaviour which I want to get rid off ... though it may
not be the right group here:

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