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 at 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 at 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 > > -- > > Ralph Angenendt......ra at br-online.de | .."Text processing has made it > possible > > Bayerischer Rundfunk...80300 München | ....to right-justify any idea, > even one > > Programmbereich.Bayern 3, Jugend und | .which cannot be justified on any > other > > Multimedia.........Tl:089.5900.16023 | ..........grounds." -- J. > Finnegan, USC > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Cleber P. de Souza > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060302/cc7d5697/attachment-0005.html>