on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach (andreas@schildbach.de) wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> For compatibility reasons, I need to add a user with a dot (.) in his
> name. "adduser" does not allow this, even if I invoke it with the
> parameter "--force-badname".
The '.' character is used as a delimiter between username and group. I'd
recommend you not do this. There are means of creating conformance
mappings between userids on various systems, I'd suggestion you look
into these.
Peace.
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