Am Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 16:27 schrieb Peer Stefan:
Hi Mario,
From: Mario Viana [mailto:marioj@secrel.com.br] Hello,
Well, maybe it´s a little off-topic , but does anybody know why SuSE 8.0 don´t accept creating a username with dots, e.g. , while I try creating the user suse.br :
# useradd suse.br useradd: invalid user name 'suse.br'
Because . is not a valid character for users. What about "chown user.group
It is valid.
file" ? Does the . belong to the username or is it the username-group delimiter?
Chown is a userland program that does (stupidly) check this, but the kernel doesn't care about chown-syntax.
I have seen all the configuration files in /etc/sysconfig, Suse DB and Google and I haven´t found anything related to this topic. =((
Dotted usernames were a bug until SuSE 8.0.
Can you elaborate on this? I just added a user called "me.too" on a SuSE 8.1 by editing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and su'ed to this user. I'd say, it still works and works as expected ;-) The alias idea might be a good solution as long as you just need an email user of that particular name. 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? Bye Emmerich -- Emmerich Eggler Eggler Communications Wannerstrasse 3/39 CH-8045 Zürich Fon: 01 - 463 43 73 Mobile: 079 - 438 75 11