Re: Adding users with first.last name

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You can set de first.last name in the mail aliases file and point them to first_last name accounts.

Regards.

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:13, 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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Profesor del Depto. de Ingeniería Electrónica
Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz

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