dot allowed adduser/useradd

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Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Di, den 03.02.2004 schrieb Balint Cristian um 12:44:
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>>Hi !
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>>	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.
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>>Any sugestion ?
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>>cristian
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>For what reason should it be good to have dots in usernames to be
>allowed? Any real good reason?
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>Dots are at least forbidden charactes in usernames and groupnames as
>chown will fail with such names.
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>Alexander
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My reason was to make it possible for a user with the email address 
"first.last at domain.com", which is out company standard convention for 
email addresses, to log into their mail box with "first.last".. That way 
they don't get confused about their email address and user name (as 
users often do).. These users do not log into the system shell as they 
are only for mail..

Is that a good enough reason?

later..