Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:44:56 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Ruddee Harris <sys.admin@networkers.com.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: system admin Message-ID: <Pine.GHP.4.21.0006230939170.12683-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <00062216404900.07407@beaver.networkers.com.au>
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On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Ruddee Harris wrote:
> Is it posible to create a new user profile using the command adduser with a
> full stop between sections of the name e.g sys.admin
> i thank u in advance for your reply
It might depend on the version you're running. The problem which
immediately sprang to mind was chown (it had/has a user.group
syntax) but according to the 4.0-S manpage:
COMPATIBILITY
Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to
distinguish the group name. This has been changed to be a colon (``:'')
character so that user and group names may contain the dot character.
...which I take it is a 'yes' in theory. Adduser doesn't appear to like
it; you may find that pw(8) is more tolerant.
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