Adding users with first.last name

[Mike Burger]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Chris wrote:

> 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.

Create usernames that don't have '.' in them, and then set up email 
aliases of first.last that point at the shorter names.
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