On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:13:03PM -0400, Felix wrote: > I have Red Hat 9 > Does any one know why I can´t use dot (colon) in user names. > In Red Hat 8 it works ok. > Can I change it. > It happend when I try to add a user > adduser username.lastname. chown uses . and : to delimit users from groups, so it would be confusing to allow . and : in usernames. -- Robin
