On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 16:50 +0530, Rajesh kumar wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and i am not able to create a user with "." say
> rajeshkumar.k.
> I have read that it will take rajeshkumar as user and k as group. How to
> change this. I need to create the user using . and its mandatory.
> 

The flag you have to pass to `adduser` is `--force-badname`. For
example:

        sudo adduser cow.goat --force-badname

Worked for me on Ubuntu 11.04. Unfortunately, I'm not really aware of
the consequences of doing this. You're probably better off choosing a
different username.

Regards,
-- 
Roshan George <[email protected]>

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