Thank you. Is there an option some where that we can set so that the useradd command would accept user names starting with a digit. I never used Debian, but as I googled around, there is an option '--force-badname' in Debian's useradd command. They can even modify the Regular Expression validation rule for user names such as '^[a-z][0-9a-z]*$'. I wonder if we could have the same on Fedora Core. Regards, Vidol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Willmert" <justin@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 7:18 PM Subject: Re: Invalid user name: starting with a digit > Vidol Loeung wrote: > > Hi All: > > > > Is there a way to create a new user with name starting with a digit? > > > > TIA for any inputs. > > > > Vidol > > > This may not be the best solution, but it works: create the user without > the digit in the beginning, and it will be registered and its home > created. Then move the home from, for example, 'gene' to '2gene'. Then > edit /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, and /etc/gshadow, each time > replacing the 'gene'/groupname (which should be the first column) with > the new name '2gene'. > > If you have questions, just ask me (I had to do this for a user in my > setup). > > Justin Willmert > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
