From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 23 1:45:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C70DF37C0D1 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:45:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:44:58 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28990; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:44:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:44:56 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Ruddee Harris Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: system admin In-Reply-To: <00062216404900.07407@beaver.networkers.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Strive to live every day as though it was last Wednesday. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message