Thanks for your reply James. Isn't aduser a binary though (as opposed to script)? I guess you meant tinkering with adduser options. Let me read the man page and see whether I can get it to accept them.
Joseph On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 08:18, Lunghabo James wrote: > I remember once facing a similar problem on FreeBSD and I had to tinker > with the adduser script to achieve that functionality. It might also be > possible with Fedora. > > Wire > > > Was attempting to move users and mail from a redhat 6.2 mail server to > > fedora core 1. The fedora is a fresh installation on a new machine. > > > > Am faced with a problem of incompatible usernames. All users on the old > > server used usernames in the form of firstname.lastname but fedora > > (tried redhat 9 too) doesn't allow punctuation marks in usernames. > > > > Does anyone know how I can disable this feature and just allow the > > punctuation marks? > > > > Joseph > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > > http://www.infocom.co.ug > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > http://www.infocom.co.ug > --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
