How to create username with "."

[Vladimir Kosovac]

Just escape the dot

useradd user\.name

V

On 9/21/06, Marq <vikramns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> When i create username like this
> "useradd user.name"
> It shows the error message saying that the name contains invalid
> characters
>
> Is there any way to create username like that,
>
> When i edit the /etc/useradd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group and /etc/gshadow it
> worked fine for me
>
>
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