Hello: Yes, I just noticed the other thread. I think two people were working on the same problem. We are going to outsource our dial-in. Therefore, we are required to include UID & out URL so the realm can be identified. Using email address is simple and easy! Any suggestions? Kirti -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:56 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] User ID's with Special Characters?? 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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos