From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 27 12:28:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11EA14C10 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:28:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25017; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:28:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:28:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: kelvin Liu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: user name. In-Reply-To: <37255A62.AA1E1532@taipingcarpets.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 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