From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 11 17:59:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDC9814E10 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:59:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA09223; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:03:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <200001120203.VAA09223@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: periods in usernames? In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000111140021.01b98840@mail.cpl.net> from Shawn Ramsey at "Jan 11, 2000 02:01:55 pm" To: shawn@megadeth.org (Shawn Ramsey) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:03:05 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey wrote, > Is there any particular reason the adduser script will not accept periods > in user accounts? 'Cause the documentation says so. From adduser(1), . . . RESTRICTIONS username Login name. May contain only lowercase characters or digits. . . . -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message