Date: 1 Mar 2000 08:49:23 +1100 From: "John Saunders" <john.saunders@nlc.net.au> To: Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser? Message-ID: <20000229214923.8536.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> In-Reply-To: <38BA3DAA.363A8818@bulinfo.net>
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In nlc.lists.freebsd-isp you wrote:
> We plan to migrate from Linux to FreeBSD, and have some users with dot
> in its username's.
> I tried to add new user with a dot in its username, but adduser accepts
> only [a-z0-9_-].
> Is there any reasons this to be not allowed?
Suppose the username is fred.smith and the account is in a group called
customers. So you want to fix up the ownership permissions on his
directory when he mucks it up be playing around one day.
# chown -R fred.smith.customers ~fred.smith
Chown cannot determine which '.' seperates the username from the group.
That is about the only problem I came across when (briefly) allowing
usernames with a '.' in them. Mainly the automated scripts bit me.
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