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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:26:07 -0800
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
To:        Kelvin <kelvin@taipingcarpets.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about login name
Message-ID:  <19990314002607.B15836@cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <36EB5E25.C2EFE05D@taipingcarpets.com>; from Kelvin on Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:58:45PM %2B0800
References:  <36EB5E25.C2EFE05D@taipingcarpets.com>

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> dear Support.
> 
> Could you kindly tach me that how can I make my freebsd system to accept
> the login name like this "kelvin.liu".  I need the dot between the login
> name. Thanks a lot.

The adduser script does not support . characters in user names. Use vipw and
manually edit or or fix the adduser script... you must also be running 3.x
or have recompiled your 2.x system to support more than 8 character user
names.



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