In fact to Lindomar, While creating the user, create default mail alias as a givenname. So, suse warns you, give the givenname then. Give first name with dot. For example First name : "x." surname : "yx" After that, you can use x.yz@domainname.com for e-mail alias. Actually, this is alias, you can create more than one alias in the alias field, while you are creating new user at new user page. Nazif Ilker Sezdi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindomar C. dos Santos" <lindomar@pop-am.rnp.br> To: <suse-security@suse.com> Cc: "Mario Viana" <marioj@secrel.com.br> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 5:48 PM Subject: Re: AW: [suse-security] Problems creating usernames with dots Mario, You can try to use alias, edit /etc/aliases e run /usr/bin/newaliases which maybe can run, By Lindomar, On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Peer Stefan wrote:
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 file" ? Does the . belong to the username or is it the username-group delimiter?
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.
regards, Stefan
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