-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 09:05 am, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > K. Shantanu wrote: > > Not sure if this was asked before. I need to addusers with dots in > > usernames through console. My Mandrake as well as RH systems gives > > not possible - . is not an allowed character in usernames > > if you want to create a username for an email address like > firstname.lastname, use internal aliasing in your mailserver for this > > actual usernames - login name that is - are the employee's empid or > something similar - and it is aliased to firstname.lastname in the > mailserver's userdb .. easier to do this with a ldap / sql backend. >
what about these: adduser --force-badname ritesh.sarraf or useradd -h /home/ritesh.sarraf ritesh.sarraf Haven't used it live but was just thinking. Will these create problems ? rrs - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com Gnupg Key ID: 04F130BC "Stealing logic from one person is plagiarism, stealing from many is research". -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBjwPe4Rhi6gTxMLwRAoGyAJ9sJI2beKs40sD1sx2qJHan76sckgCfUkbb +cKnjj25wmvLpp1/9cJMx7A= =UJKc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idU88&alloc_id065&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
