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They probably want to create such for e-mail accounts through passwd. Marc Henry Galang wrote: 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 -- "Having GOD in our lives doesn't mean we're sailing on a ship with no storms. It's simply sailing on a ship no storm can ever sink. Sail on!" Glenn Remot Network Engr. - IT,Network Comm. Section, The Philippine Daily Inquirer 8978808 loc 351 |
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