How to create username with "."

Aleksandar Milivojevic alex at milivojevic.org
Thu Sep 21 11:02:42 UTC 2006


Marq wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When i create username like this
> "useradd user.name"
> It shows the error message saying that the name contains invalid characters

It is bad idea to create such users.  For example, chown command accepts 
argument of type "user.group".  You should stick with letters and numbers.




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