30 Dec
2005
30 Dec
'05
12:48 p.m.
For some strange reason I am no longer able to create groupnames or usernames (with useradd and groupadd) that contain a dot.
Uptill now it was possible to create user&groupnames like c.smith but now I get these errors:
[root@server etc]# useradd c.smith useradd: invalid user name 'c.smith'
[root@server1 etc]# groupadd c.smith groupadd: c.smith is a not a valid group name
Anything without a dot works without problems.
The box is a (fully updated) CentOS 3.6 x86_64 box with Dual Opteron cpu.
Thanks for any hints!