Spades wrote:
Hi,
I tried to add a username ie. Bryan, but FreeBSD doesn't allow me
to do so. It gives me illegal username error. Any idea how to go
about adding usernames like 'Bryan-admin' etc.
Please help.
Thanks..
Bryan
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Spades asked on Sun Jan 18, 2004:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to add a username ie. Bryan, but FreeBSD doesn't allow me
> to do so. It gives me illegal username error. Any idea how to go
> about adding usernames like 'Bryan-admin' etc.
>
Are you sure that it's the uppercase and not the dash that's the p
Spades wrote:
I tried to add a username ie. Bryan, but FreeBSD doesn't allow me
to do so. It gives me illegal username error. Any idea how to go
about adding usernames like 'Bryan-admin' etc.
You can create such users by directly editting the passwd database via 'vipw'
rather than by running 'addu