On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 01:26, Vidol Loeung wrote: > 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. > ---- webmin <www.webmin.com> has it's own interface to users & groups and will allow things that the useradd / groupadd cli or gui won't - thus you can have users as you wish. Also, there is absolutely nothing that prevents you from going back and editing /etc/passwd and /etc/group to insert/adjust things that you couldn't get from the shell (although I'm hesitant to suggest this to someone that's not entirely familiar with it). Note that also a better system would coordinate the users and groups across the network instead of trying to duplicate them - see samba/winbind and/or LDAP Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
