Balint Cristian wrote:
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
The dot, although not posix comliant, is a common separator for the user and group with chown.
You can edit and recompile chown {in coreutils rpm}, and possibly useradd and adduser {in shadow-utils rpm} to not use dot as a
user/group separator.I modified the utilities years ago but we decided not to allow usernames with dots for cross platform compatablity reasons.
Good luck
