On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 09:36 +0530, Subhasis Ray wrote: > Hi, > > Go ahead and make the required entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow > (if ur using one) > Then type passwd <username> from the root prompt...... and change the > passwd. Things look like working. We need to check y does the useradd > program is not allowing usernames with dots..... :) >
Checkout redhat bugzilla for reports and comments about this behavior. One of the reason behind this seems to be because of support for '.' in chown command to separate user from groups. you wouldn't like to do "chown navneet.choudhary.users /home/navneet/.bashrc" for instance. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
