[CentOS] User ID's with Special Characters??

[Jim Perrin]

On 1/6/06, Kirti S. Bajwa <kbajwa at tibonline.net> wrote:
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> Hello List:
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> I am new to this list and this is my first posting.
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> Presently, I am using Red Hat 9.0 and soon planning to switch over to
> CentOS. I have one question. In RH user names can not contain special
> characters. For example my UID is 'kbajwa' and my email address is
> kbajwa at tibonline.net. Since '@' in the email address is a special character,
> I can not use my email as my UID.
>
> Can I use email address as UID in CentOS?

My god it's a flashback to the OTHER thread I was just reading...
To answer your question, no. It won't work in centos or rhel.

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Jim Perrin
System Architect - UIT
Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center