I believe I had a problem between RH7.2 and RH8 with this. You can
create the user and set the password without the dot and then manually
edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to add the dot. The user can then log
in etc. Suse doesn't have this problem or doesn't have it yet.
Larry
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 21:41, Ronald KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> I tried to add a new user to my system with a dot (period) in his name
> (like jim.smith) but /usr/sbin/useradd does not allow this.
> Some of my books say it should be "adduser" or some such.
> I simply wanted to have the same user name as the E-mail name.
> Is this a Slackware or a LINUX or an UNIX restriction?
> I used a hyphen, but I'm not happy. Any way around this?
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