adduser

[pat@patoche.org]

Hi,

if someone can explain this to me...

I'd like to create a login which has a dot in it.
adduser doesn't want to, telling me to force with --force-badname
but even with that switch it doesn't work, adduser doesn't want to create it
at all.

why is that ? what's wrong with a dot in a login name ?
(i'm wondering, as i've created the login without it, and then manually
edited system files to put it in back, without problems)

Thanks in advance,

/\//\/\/\\/\/\//\/\\/\/\\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\/\//\/\\
Patrick M.   pat@patoche.org    http://www.patoche.org/