dot allowed adduser/useradd

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 03.02.2004 schrieb Balint Cristian um 12:44:
> Hi !
> 
> 	I already digged maillist, i understand why cannot be dot in the username
> while i "adduser", my Q is that if there is some workaround or some patch, i really need to allow dot in usernames
> it is to ugly to modify /etc/pass entry's.
> 	I looket too at src.rpms i coud not figure out where to touch, i see no redhatish patch wich remove the dot feauture
> and in tarball is difficult to find out.
> 
> Any sugestion ?
> 
> cristian

For what reason should it be good to have dots in usernames to be
allowed? Any real good reason?

Dots are at least forbidden charactes in usernames and groupnames as
chown will fail with such names.

Alexander


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