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
Just a minute...
IIRC you can double quote the username and group name using chown to allow dots.
Example: # touch some-file # chown "joe.user" some-file # ls -l some-file
-rw-r--r-- 1 joe.user root 0 Feb 3 10:31 some-file
For the example I used adduser to add "joeuser", then I used vipw to modify "joeuser" to be "joe.user" in the password and shadow files.
It appears as though adduser and useradd check to see if there is a dot and complains if there is.
