Hi Marq I am using RHEL v4 and works fine, I can add users with a ".", it happened to me with RHEL v3 and solved the problem with updating some package shadow-utils. Thanks --Adel On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:44, Miner, Jonathan W (CSC) (US SSA) wrote: > >Marq wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> When i create username like this > >> "useradd user.name" > >> It shows the error message saying that the name contains invalid > >> characters > > > >It is bad idea to create such users. For example, chown command accepts > >argument of type "user.group". You should stick with letters and numbers. > > The chown(1) man page says that a colon ":" is the delimiting character: > > NAME > chown - change file owner and group > > SYNOPSIS > chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE... > > > My advice to Marq would be to use a dummy username, and then manually edit > the passwd and shadow files. We've been using usernames like first.m.last > for several years to maintain compatibility with another operating system; > the users don't like having to use the long usernames but it works. -- Adel Ben Zarrouk Senior Project Manager Opennet MEA FZ LLC Tel: +971 4 390 1943 Fax: +971 4 390 4360 Cell:+971 50 458 2797 http://www.opennet.ae/ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
