Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:45:38 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: John Saunders <john.saunders@nlc.net.au> Cc: Krassimir Slavchev <krassi@bulinfo.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adduser? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10002292245060.6235-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <20000229214923.8536.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au>
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On 1 Mar 2000, John Saunders wrote: > 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. Actually, ":" is a supported separator for chown as well. > -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ > . | 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. | > +------------------------------------------------------------+ Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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