On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 13:13, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How can I define a local use with "@" in the name
>
> useradd "bob@myname" gives error.
>
> I "need" to have the @ sign in the name -is that possible. Silly reason -
> the system I am trying to send emails to the linux server has a bug. I'm
> trying to get around it.
>
>
@ is not an allowed character in most Unix logins
Allowed characters:
'a'...'z'
'A'...'Z'
'0'...'9'
'.'
'-'
'_'
$ is allowed as the last character but @ is not. To allow it you would need
to patch everything from glibc, shadow-utils, pam, systemd and email.
@ is reserved as the identifier in an email address and many utilities will
break if you have 2 @ in them.. aka user foo@xxxxxxxxxx@foobar.net is going
to cause all kinds of issues. and a user foo@xxxxxxxxxx is going to find
that many utilities strip @foobar.net and try to use the user foo.
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
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