On Friday 15 December 2006 18:31, Jérôme Augé wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that I can't create login name containing a '.' (dot) > character (e.g. firstname.lastname). I stumbled upon this problem when I > needed to upgrade an older PLD Samba server where accounts where all > created as firstname.lastname. So, I ended up patching the shadow > package to allow dot in logins and use it instead of the PLD/ac default > shadow pkg. > > What about allowing the dot character by default in the shadow package ?
Related question - do we need shadow package at all? There is well maintained pwdutils which replaces shadow + has more features. ps. I don't have single server with shadow. -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz PLD/Linux Team arekm / maven.pl http://ftp.pld-linux.org/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
