system users with dot in the name

[Guy Fraser]

Does it work if you double quote the user name.

The POSIX standard allows dot characters in usernames if I remember 
correctly.

At one time I had written a patch and sent it to RH to comply with the 
dot in
usernames. I believe my reasoning was the POSIX standard.

I believe fileutils is now part of coreutils, I will look to see what 
may be involved in
writing a new patch.

Nicolas wrote:

>Hi to all,
>i would like to create users with dot in the name.. for example mydomain.com
>adduser doesn't permit this but it permitted in the redhat8.. How can i do
>this?
>
>Best
>Nic
>