On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 13:30, WipeOut wrote: > Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > >Am Di, den 03.02.2004 schrieb Balint Cristian um 12:44: > > > > > >>Hi ! > >> > >> I already digged maillist, i understand why cannot be dot in the username > >>while i "adduser", my Q is that if there is some workaround or some patch, i really need to allow dot in usernames > >>it is to ugly to modify /etc/pass entry's. > >> I looket too at src.rpms i coud not figure out where to touch, i see no redhatish patch wich remove the dot feauture > >>and in tarball is difficult to find out. > >> > >>Any sugestion ? > >> > >>cristian > >> > >> > > > >For what reason should it be good to have dots in usernames to be > >allowed? Any real good reason? > > > >Dots are at least forbidden charactes in usernames and groupnames as > >chown will fail with such names. > > > >Alexander > > > > > > > > > My reason was to make it possible for a user with the email address > "first.last@xxxxxxxxxx", which is out company standard convention for > email addresses, to log into their mail box with "first.last".. That way > they don't get confused about their email address and user name (as > users often do).. These users do not log into the system shell as they > are only for mail.. Just for my own info, but couldn't this be solved by authenticating mail users in a different way? I used to do this by authenticating on mysql rahter than normal system auth, so that i had almost no local user on mail server. Of course this is not viabile if your users also need to log on the mail server for some reason. E.
