on Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:58:55AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen (arnt@c2i.net) wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 00:48:41 +0100,
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> <20030929234841.GG3497@guildenstern.dyndns.org>:
>
> > 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.
>
> ..excellent. Urls to RFC etc to ram down idiot isp throats?
Well, the issue is specific to GNU/Linux / Unix user IDs. Other OSs may
have different legal names.
In this case, the appropriate approach IMO is what I suggested
previously: create a conformance mapping between the external and local
name(s). Sometimes you've got to roll with things and be a little
flexible.
Peace.
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