Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:39:39 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> Cc: Kelvin <kelvin@taipingcarpets.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about login name Message-ID: <19990314113940.12057.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990314002607.B15836@cpl.net> of Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:26:07 PST References: <36EB5E25.C2EFE05D@taipingcarpets.com> <19990314002607.B15836@cpl.net>
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> > Could you kindly tach me that how can I make my freebsd system to accept
> > the login name like this "kelvin.liu". I need the dot between the login
> > name. Thanks a lot.
>
> The adduser script does not support . characters in user names. Use vipw and
> manually edit or or fix the adduser script... you must also be running 3.x
> or have recompiled your 2.x system to support more than 8 character user
> names.
It's also worth reading the man page for passwd(5), in
particular the following partial paragraph:
The login name must never begin with a hyphen (``-'');
also, it is strongly suggested that neither upper-case
characters nor dots (``.'') be part of the name, as this
tends to confuse mailers.
And then ask yourself if you really *need* to use this kind of
login or if it's just something you'd like. If you don't really
need it (and there must be very few reasons why you might), you
would probably be better off not to do it.
--
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
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