on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello everyone, > > For compatibility reasons, I need to add a user with a dot (.) in his > name. "adduser" does not allow this, even if I invoke it with the > parameter "--force-badname".
The '.' character is used as a delimiter between username and group. I'd recommend you not do this. There are means of creating conformance mappings between userids on various systems, I'd suggestion you look into these. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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