RE: adduser problem
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Leung [mailto:vsctony@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 25 September 2003 07:17
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: adduser problem
>
>
> Dear All,
>
> I want to create user account with dot between the username,
> but can't create, what setting should i change?
>
> test:~# adduser abc.ken
> adduser: Please enter a username consisting of a lower case
> letter followed by lower case letters and numbers. Use the
> `--force-badname' option to allow underscores, and uppercase.
>
> Thanks,
>
as far as i know you cant, you could try creating a user by hand and
sticking the name in like that but I'm not sure if it'll like it, see
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/x2331.html#MANUAL-ADDUSER which cobers off how
to.
hth (a bit)
tim
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