2008/10/29 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > adduser thinks that dots in usernames are a bad idea, probably because > much code has historically used the 'chown USER.GROUP' syntax that fails > if usernames contain dots. You may not have run into this but I've seen > such code in Ubuntu fairly recently.
I have not run into this problem. I chown frequently using both: chown john.tapsell filenames and chown john.tapsell:john.tapsell filenames And have not yet had a problem. > It might be nice for you to be able to override this in ubiquity, > although I do think that a warning is appropriate. Agreed. -- Installer will not allow username with fullstop in it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288677 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
