Adding users with first.last name

[Hugo Perez Casanova]

You can set de first.last name in the mail aliases file and point them
to first_last name accounts.

Regards.

On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:13, Chris wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:34:50 -0400 (EDT), David Gavin
> <dgavin at davegavin.com> wrote:
> > 
> >  Chris,
> > 
> >    Using a period in a username will cause you nothing but problems (even
> > if you insert it manually into /etc/passwd) - period is used in regular
> > expressions as an "any character" token. Use an underscore, useradd
> > will accept it, i.e. "john_doe"
> > 
> >  Dave Gavin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Chris said:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Hope this is the right list :)
> > > I'm using Fedora Core 2, updated.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any advice
> > >
> > > --
> > > C
> > >
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> > 
> 
> 
> Good idea :)   I'll do that, thanks for the tip!
> 
> C

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IEE José Hugo Pérez Casanova
Profesor del Depto. de Ingeniería Electrónica
Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz
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