On 1/6/06, Kirti S. Bajwa <kbajwa at 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 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. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center