From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 3:30:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay2.inwind.it (relay2.inwind.it [212.141.53.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A56037B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 03:30:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fcasadei@inwind.it) Received: from [62.98.221.253] (62.98.221.253) by relay2.inwind.it (5.5.029) id 3AE402FB0012914F for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:30:36 +0200 Received: (qmail 1661 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Apr 2001 10:28:45 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:28:45 +0200 From: Francesco Casadei To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: usernames with dots wash.test Message-ID: <20010430122845.A1456@goku.kasby> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q References: <20010430102242.B32935@everest.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="envbJBWh7q8WU6mo" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010430102242.B32935@everest.wananchi.com>; from wash@wananchi.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:22:42AM +0300 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:22:42AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Hi, > Here is something that is a little worrying. > May I kindly ask the reason why FreeBSD doesn't support the creation of > usernames with dots. Linux has no problem with such usernames. I am not > a fun of Linux but I'd be happy if I could find a way of having usernames > with dots, as opposed to my current practice of havng to create an alias > if a user wants such a name.... >=20 >=20 > -Wash >=20 > -- > Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., > wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse > Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., > Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. >=20 > "I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! > The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building." > -- Charles Schulz > end of the original message Uh? Using FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE I get: root@goku.kasby# pw useradd a.b.c.d.e.f root@goku.kasby# pw usershow a.b.c.d.e.f a.b.c.d.e.f:*:1017:1017::0:0:User &:/home/a.b.c.d.e.f:/bin/sh root@goku.kasby# pw userdel a.b.c.d.e.f root@goku.kasby# pw usershow a.b.c.d.e.f pw: no such user `a.b.c.d.e.f' root@goku.kasby#=20 Francesco Casadei --=20 You can download my public key from http://digilander.iol.it/fcasadei/ or retrieve it from a keyserver (pgpkeys.mit.edu, wwwkeys.pgp.net, ...) Key fingerprint is: 1671 9A23 ACB4 520A E7EE 00B0 7EC3 375F 164E B17B --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67T5dfsM3XxZOsXsRAnM4AJ0RRynoUnYDncH/FNdc033i6GULdACZASbz r6SiiqAm5w/oFGQr4mA0W9E= =cT1a -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --envbJBWh7q8WU6mo-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message