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





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