Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?

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Subject: Adding a user with a dot (.) in his name: How?
From: Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:58:38 +0200
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Hello everyone,

For compatibility reasons, I need to add a user with a dot (.) in hisname. "adduser" does not allow this, even if I invoke it with theparameter "--force-badname".

Can anyone show me a possibility to make "adduser" ignore thisrestriction for this one time? The user is only for cvs access viapserver, he does not need a home directory and interactive shell access.


Regards,

Andreas

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