<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Chris, Our company is all firstname.lastname as well. I have been creating the entries with an underscore and then manually editing them to replace the underscore with a period. I haven't had any problems that I know of. I have been doing this since FC1 and continuously using up2date nightly so that I am on FC3T1 now. Is there any specific area I should look for problems? Thanks Wilbur Chris wrote: <blockquote cite="mid804fd9a3040907121351f8355@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:34:50 -0400 (EDT), David Gavin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dgavin@davegavin.com"><dgavin@davegavin.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> Chris, Using a period in a username will cause you nothing but problems (even if you insert it manually into /etc/passwd) - period is used in regular expressions as an "any character" token. Use an underscore, useradd will accept it, i.e. "john_doe" Dave Gavin Chris said: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi all, Hope this is the right list :) I'm using Fedora Core 2, updated. Is it possible to add users to the system using a first.last name form? I get an error when attempting it: ' useradd: invalid user name 'john.doe'. I have to add about 800 names to a mail server and shortened versions would have duplicates, I have an older RH 8.0 server that I've been able to add users with this user name form, but I couldn't see any difference with any config that would allow it. Thanks for any advice -- C -- fedora-list mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Good idea :) I'll do that, thanks for the tip! C </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>