28 Aug
2003
28 Aug
'03
7:21 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:13:03PM -0400, Felix wrote:
I have Red Hat 9 Does any one know why I can´t use dot (colon) in user names. In Red Hat 8 it works ok. Can I change it. It happend when I try to add a user adduser username.lastname.
chown uses . and : to delimit users from groups, so it would be confusing to allow . and : in usernames.
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Robin