Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:28:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: kelvin Liu <kelvin@taipingcarpets.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user name. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904271226510.2463-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <37255A62.AA1E1532@taipingcarpets.com>
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On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, kelvin Liu wrote: > Dear Master, > > I face a problem that there is dot within our username like this > "deb.options". I try to adduser use the deb.options. But the system > reject me. And then I use deb. After the user add sucessful. I lunch > vipw to change the deb to deb.options. Now I can login in as > deb.options. But I cannot lunch pine program which system compliant > premisses denied. How can I fix it ? > Moreover, could you tell me how can I add user which not use adduser > program. `.' is not a valid username character. Try a dash `-'. From passwd(5): The login name must never begin with a hyphen (``-''); also, it is strongly suggested that neither upper-case characters nor dots (``.'') be part of the name, as this tends to confuse mailers. No field may contain a colon (``:'') as this has been used historically to separate the fields in the user database. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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