I worked it out, need to escape the @ symbol i.e.' \@' Cheers Glenn Hocking Publish Media Pty Ltd
http://www.sitegeneral.com/ Glenn Hocking wrote: > Hi all > > I have a problem with adding users in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED] . If > I use 'useradd' as follows > > useradd [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > It will work most of the time but sometimes it fails with bad > username. So I tried using adduser --force-badname but this always > rejects user names with an '@' symbol. > > adduser --force-badname [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am running 'testing' > > Haven't seen Toy Story yet so can never remember the code names :-( > > Does anybody have any suggestions or comments to overcome this > problem. I have found no other problems with the user names with @ > symbols that I have managed to create. > > Thanks in advance, > Kind regards > Glenn Hocking > > http://www.sitegeneral.com/ > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
