Re: adduser vs useradd

[Glenn Hocking <glenn@publishmedia.com>]

I worked it out, need to escape the @ symbol i.e.' \@'

Cheers
Glenn Hocking
Publish Media Pty Ltd

http://www.sitegeneral.com/


Glenn Hocking wrote:

>  Hi all
>
> I have a problem with adding users in the form of user@domain.com . If 
> I use 'useradd' as follows
>
> useradd user@domain.com
>
> It will work most of the time but sometimes it fails with bad 
> username. So I tried using adduser --force-badname but this always 
> rejects user names with an '@' symbol.
>
> adduser --force-badname user@domain.com
>
> I am running 'testing'
>
> Haven't seen Toy Story yet so can never remember the code names :-(
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions or comments to overcome this 
> problem. I have found no other problems with the user names with @ 
> symbols that I have managed to create.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Kind regards
> Glenn Hocking
>
> http://www.sitegeneral.com/



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