Adding users with first.last name

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 18:33, Chris wrote:
> Is it possible to add users to the system using a first.last name
> form? I get an error when attempting it: ' useradd: invalid user name
> 'john.doe'. I have to add about 800 names to a mail server and
> shortened versions would have duplicates, I have an older RH 8.0
> server that I've been able to add users with this user name form, but
> I couldn't see any difference with any config that would allow it.

Why not use aliases?

e.g. in /etc/aliases

john.doe:	jdoe

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>