Dear Jay: Thank you so much for the reply. I knew it was a bit silly to ask the question. I've never taken that into consideration until rerecently when the agency I work for defines their own conventions for usernames which would look like: firstname.lastname. I agree, that just complicates things. But, I was asking if it is still possible to create the names in such form as they already exists in another server with MS windows 2000 and we do not want to create a different name. We want all users to use the same usernames and passwords for all systems. Thanks, Vidol Jay Daniels wrote: > Vidol Loeung said: > > Dear all: > > > > I'm having problems creating user names that start with a digit (such > > as: 45joe) or contain a dot (such as: joe.lim). > > What are other rules/conventions with user names? Is there any way I can > > change those rules? > > > > > > Thanks, > > Vidol > > > > > > Now why you want to go and make it complicated;) > > "The Linux kernel itself treats users are mere numbers. Each user is > identified by a unique integer, the user id or uid, because numbers are > faster and easier for a computer to process than textual names. A separate > database outside the kernel assigns a textual name, the username, to each > user id. The database contains additional information as well." > > With that said, why not just use joe45? > > jay > -- > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
