On Mit, 20 Nov 2002 at 16:27 (+0100), Peer Stefan wrote:
From: Mario Viana [mailto:marioj@secrel.com.br] Hello,
Hi, it's not security related - a better place for this question would be suse-linux(-e)
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'
Add a new user without dot and edit the /etc/passwd manually after this. It should work (without warranty).
Because . is not a valid character for users. What about "chown user.group file" ? Does the . belong to the username or is it the username-group delimiter?
Why this? AFAIK your chown syntax isn't standard, it should be: chown user:group file (according to the manual page in 8.0 :-) Jan