On Thursday 02 March 2006 05:30, Zeb Fletcher wrote:
As mentioned earlier you might run in to issues with programs have problems with the special character. If your wanting to be able to do e-mail from your box and have a dot in the name then create the entry in the alisas file.
As an example of this:
Assume user b.jones, group "usergroup", and you want to change the ownership of file foo
chown b.jones.usergroup foo
You can use colon, but dot is still legal, and many scripts use the dot. From the man page:
If the user name is followed by a colon or dot and a group name (or numeric group ID), with no spaces between them, the group ownership of the files is changed as well.
Why would you feel you *need* a username with a dot in it?
Zeb
On 3/2/06, Cleber P. de Souza cleberps@gmail.com wrote:
I didnt find a way to create usernames with dots, but you could create a normal user without dots and so change passwd, shadow and group by hand to the new username with dots.
On 3/2/06, Ralph Angenendt ra+centos@br-online.de wrote:
spart cus wrote:
hi guys, how can i create a username with period ? Like for example username: linux.spartacus
That *might* lead to problems within application software not expecting punctuation in usernames.
Why do you want to do this? Maybe there is another solution to the problem you are trying to solve ...
Ralph
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