From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 9:37:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java2.dpcsys.com (java2.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37F837B422 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:37:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by java2.dpcsys.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3UGZtc16334; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 09:35:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: usernames with dots wash.test In-Reply-To: <20010430141231.C74981@everest.wananchi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 30, Odhiambo Washington wrote: >Please stop this crazy idea ;-) >just try > >adduser fran.casadei > >Like the way I tried..... > >everest# adduser >Use option ``-verbose'' if you want to see more warnings and questions >or try to repair bugs. >Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: wash.raburu >Wrong username. Please use only lowercase characters or digits >Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: adduser is a perl script. Change it's validation to allow dots. >2nd test:: > >everest# pw useradd wash.raburu -d /home/wash.raburu > >everest# exim -bt wash.raburu >wash.raburu@wananchi.com cannot be resolved at this time: > failed to stat /home/wash.raburu (No such file or directory) -d tells pw what home directory to enter in /etc/passwd Use -m if you want the home directory created. pw useradd seems to have pretty much the same options as SYSV useradd Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message