[H-GEN] Redhat 9 usernames

Tony Melia (DMS) Tony.Melia at downsmicro.com.au
Mon Sep 15 21:32:21 EDT 2003


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I notice redhat 9 rejects usernames with punctuation in usernames, both from
the commandline and gui tools when setting up new users.  I can fix this by
editing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow later by adding a period to make it
firstname.surname, which is they way I prefer it to be.  

Does anybody know how to disable this 'feature' so I don't have to go back
and fix stuff after adding the user??? 

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