Ok, I see what you mean, hack the source code :). Just yesterday I had to hack the source code of etherboot's tulip.c driver to accept the 3com officeconnect Soho100b-tx cards. Well let me get hacking. Is it not the shadow-utils package that contains the useradd utlity? Joseph
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:06, Lunghabo James wrote: > u can get the source. > > W > > > 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 > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------- > 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
