On 15:15 31 Jan 2004, Muhammad Rizwan Khan <rizwan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | Is it possible to create users with dot in redhat 9. | like rizwan.khan useradd doesn't let you do this. However, you can make the user with a "normal" name (undotted, like your own login) and edit the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files afterwards. However, you should probably ask yourself why you want this. At my workplace we make conventional logins (no dots) but generate first.last mail aliases for everyone. I have yet to find a circumstance where a first.last was wanted other than email. Bear in mind that some programs will not like dots in usernames, considering that a delimiter. For example the chown command accepts chown user.group file... as a way to adjust the user and group at once. The SysV syntax for this: chown user:group file... is of course preferable (and accepted by GNU chown) because it uses the same delimiter as the passwd and group files, and so can't conflict with a login name. There are probably other examples. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ That's about as good as when one of my students left me a note signed 'anon.'--written on personalized stationery. - Ayse Sercan <ayse@xxxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
