From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 14 0:24:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5227514D76 for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: (from shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA02591; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:26:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19990314002607.B15836@cpl.net> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 00:26:07 -0800 From: Shawn Ramsey To: Kelvin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about login name References: <36EB5E25.C2EFE05D@taipingcarpets.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <36EB5E25.C2EFE05D@taipingcarpets.com>; from Kelvin on Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:58:45PM +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message