From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 09:10:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B902316A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from m.kolocation.com (m.kolocation.com [66.111.12.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F4D743D7F for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:10:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from darekCUTTHISOUT@nyi.net) Received: (qmail 55056 invoked by uid 89); 20 Jan 2004 17:07:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nyi.net) (64.90.164.230) by 0 with SMTP; 20 Jan 2004 17:07:27 -0000 Message-ID: <400D60F8.1050802@nyi.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:10:16 -0500 From: Darek M User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Spades , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <092801c3dda8$8066a280$fa10fea9@bryanuptrvb0jc> In-Reply-To: <092801c3dda8$8066a280$fa10fea9@bryanuptrvb0jc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: usernames with uppercase X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:10:36 -0000 Spades wrote: >Hi, > >I tried to add a username ie. Bryan, but FreeBSD doesn't allow me >to do so. It gives me illegal username error. Any idea how to go >about adding usernames like 'Bryan-admin' etc. > >Please help. > >Thanks.. > >Bryan >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > su-2.05a# pw useradd -n Darek -s /usr/local/bin/bash su-2.05a# cat /etc/passwd | grep Darek Darek:*:6672:6673:User &:/home/Darek:/usr/local/bin/bash