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

On 1/6/06, Kirti S. Bajwa kbajwa@tibonline.net wrote:

Hello List:

I am new to this list and this is my first posting.

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@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.

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