Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
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.
Yes, I guess using a MySQL db would have been the best way but since RH
never provided the mail server componenets that were capable of
conneting and using a MySQL DB for the mail accounts and I don't trust
my abilities in building custom packages and keeping them updated when a
security problem is found I had to use system accounts for my mail users..
later..
