Chris,
Our company is all firstname.lastname as well.
I have been creating the entries with an underscore and then manually
editing them to replace the underscore with a period.
I haven't had any problems that I know of.
I have been doing this since FC1 and continuously using up2date nightly
so that I am on FC3T1 now.
Is there any specific area I should look for problems?
Thanks
Wilbur
Chris wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:34:50 -0400 (EDT), David Gavin
<dgavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Chris,
Using a period in a username will cause you nothing but problems (even
if you insert it manually into /etc/passwd) - period is used in regular
expressions as an "any character" token. Use an underscore, useradd
will accept it, i.e. "john_doe"
Dave Gavin
Chris said:
Hi all,
Hope this is the right list :)
I'm using Fedora Core 2, updated.
Is it possible to add users to the system using a first.last name
form? I get an error when attempting it: ' useradd: invalid user name
'john.doe'. I have to add about 800 names to a mail server and
shortened versions would have duplicates, I have an older RH 8.0
server that I've been able to add users with this user name form, but
I couldn't see any difference with any config that would allow it.
Thanks for any advice
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Good idea :) I'll do that, thanks for the tip!
C
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