On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:31:56PM +0100, 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 ?
IIRC we did a research some time ago and dot should be allowed. But nobody cared to make a patch with this change (actually revert of upstream change which disallowed using dot). Well, you can use pwdutils instead of shadow, like many PLD users do. -- Jakub Bogusz http://qboosh.pl/ _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en
