Quoting Juan Gaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kase, theres a reason for it. It may be the company's > default email, it may be because its been like that in MS > and we are just migrating it, or maybe because my boss > like it as it is, .. there's a lot of reason
Most user programs will not accept "." in login names, but I believe that a "." is not disallowed. You can write cute programs (maybe in C) to force in the "." However, you will get problems later on, for example, when you do a chown of a file: "chown pablo.reyes myfile" because the chown command will think that the login name is pablo and the group name is reyes. Maybe you could do chown "pablo\.reyes":groupname myfile but I have not tried that so I am not sure if it will work. If those names with "." are needed only for email addresses, I think it is easier to just use the /etc/mail/aliases file where mail addresses with "." can be mapped to more acceptable login names, like pablo.reyes: pablo My two cents worth. Pablo Manalastas -- 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
