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

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:27:13 -0400, 
Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 3F7D9551.5020709@techhouse.org>:

> Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> To be clear, use of '.' as a delimiter is deprecated in favor of ':'. 
> As long as you always use ':' as your delimiter, chown at least has no
> problems with .'s in ids.
> 

..my issue with "." in usernames is _I_ get other peoples email because
my pop3 service provider boxes are managed by idiots. Allright, their 
support monkeys are _nice_, the last one put a few hundred Swen "mail"s
in the webmail's "trash folder" on trying to delete it.  ;-)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.