From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 29 13:50: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from nhj.nlc.net.au (nhj.nlc.net.au [203.24.133.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A132C37BAFA for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:49:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@nlc.net.au) Received: (qmail 8540 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Mar 2000 08:49:23 +1100 Date: 1 Mar 2000 08:49:23 +1100 Message-ID: <20000229214923.8536.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> From: "John Saunders" To: Krassimir Slavchev Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser? X-Newsgroups: nlc.lists.freebsd-isp In-Reply-To: <38BA3DAA.363A8818@bulinfo.net> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.37 (i686)) Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders - mailto:john@nlc.net.au (EMail) | ,--_|\ | - http://www.nlc.net.au/ (WWW) | / Oz \ | - 02-9489-4932 or 04-1822-3814 (Phone) | \_,--\_/ | NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS P/L - Supplying a professional, | v | and above all friendly, internet connection service. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message