 | | | User wit dot in red hat 9 | User wit dot in red hat 9 2004-01-29 - By Cameron Simpson
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On 15:15 31 Jan 2004, Muhammad Rizwan Khan <rizwan@(protected) > wrote:
| Is it possible to create users with dot in redhat 9.
| like rizwan.khan
useradd doesn 't let you do this. However, you can make the user with a
"normal " name (undotted, like your own login) and edit the /etc/passwd
and /etc/shadow files afterwards.
However, you should probably ask yourself why you want this.
At my workplace we make conventional logins (no dots) but generate
first.last mail aliases for everyone. I have yet to find a circumstance
where a first.last was wanted other than email.
Bear in mind that some programs will not like dots in usernames,
considering that a delimiter. For example the chown command accepts
chown user.group file...
as a way to adjust the user and group at once. The SysV syntax for this:
chown user:group file...
is of course preferable (and accepted by GNU chown) because it uses the
same delimiter as the passwd and group files, and so can 't conflict with
a login name.
There are probably other examples.
Cheers,
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That 's about as good as when one of my students left me a note signed
'anon. '--written on personalized stationery.
- Ayse Sercan <ayse@(protected) >
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