On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:27:13 -0400, Travis Crump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:58:55AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:48:41 +0100, > >>"Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > >>>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. > >> > >>..excellent. Urls to RFC etc to ram down idiot isp throats? > > > > > > Well, the issue is specific to GNU/Linux / Unix user IDs. Other OSs > > may have different legal names. > > > > In this case, the appropriate approach IMO is what I suggested > > previously: create a conformance mapping between the external and > > local name(s). Sometimes you've got to roll with things and be a > > little flexible. > > > > Peace. > > > > To be clear, use of '.' as a delimiter is deprecated in favor of ':'. > As long as you always use ':' as your delimiter, chown at least has no > problems with .'s in ids. > ..my issue with "." in usernames is _I_ get other peoples email because my pop3 service provider boxes are managed by idiots. Allright, their support monkeys are _nice_, the last one put a few hundred Swen "mail"s in the webmail's "trash folder" on trying to delete it. ;-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]