spaces in user names was Re: [K12OSN] compound names stopping gnome logins

[john]

Hi Petre,

Thanks for this help. I am using winbind/samba, Pam_mount to authenticate to
Active Directory, so we have some names which AD will tolerate that Linux
will not.  Do you know if there is any solution other than creating new
users for those cases?

John

On 2/9/07, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
>
> Unless things have changed (and they may have), having a space in a user
> ID was never
> allowed in Unix/Linux.  Stay away from other punctuation characters, too,
> if you want to
> avoid problems.
>
> Petre
>
> john wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have one that I hope you can help me with. While most of our students
> > have sane user names in the lastname_firstname format, some of our
> > student users have compound user names like:
> >
> > user van_user . It just so happens that this user is having trouble
> > logging in to the Gnome desktop.
> > These compound names don't seem to cause problems if students log in via
> > the command line. When the student trys to login in via GDM they get the
> > following message:
> >
> > "Please contact your system administrator to resolve the following
> problem:
> > Could not resolve the address "xml.readwrite:/home/Students/user
> > van_user/.gconf" in the configuration file /etc/gconf/2/path": Couldn't
> > resolve address for configuration source: Bad address
> > `xml:readwrite:/home/Students/user van_user/.gconf':  ` ' is an invalid
> > character in a configuration storage address"
> >
> > Is the problem the compound name? Where did that final ' come from on
> > xml:readwrite:/home/Students/user van_user/.gconf' ?
> >
> > I hope someone here can point me in the right direction.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > John
> >
> >
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