er. why would you like to create such username? why not just use a "-" instead. Probably they've removed it because it caused problems on previous versions, like for example: apache would have a hard time parsing urls like http://mydomain.com/~foo.bar, apache might mistake it for a file or something.
Juan Gaspar said: > > Hello pluggers > > I just encountered this problem on Red Hat 9. > > It doesn't allow me to add user name with this format > > name.user > > A "." (period) within the username. > > Hope that any of u have encountered this, and hopefully have a fix. > > I'm now searching google for answer (for my part of course as a > responsible member PLUG). :-) > > jgaspar > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard-- > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) > Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph > Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph > . > To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to > http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie -- "linux domination is simple, just type rm -rf /mnt/windows" Marc Henry Galang Web references: www.free.net.ph/Members/marc/, Google => "Marc Henry Galang". MD5 Signature = 904a13d379c58ec8ea964bbbf0a5e55c -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
