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.

 

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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