Hi all, I want to add a user with .in between for example john.doe But in debian sarge i was not able to do it with adduser so i tried with useradd and it was successful. There was an entry in /etc/passwd file But when i cd /home/john.doe it says no such file or directory and i cant see any directory in /home as john.doe. Pls tell me what am i doing wrong i need this for my mail server I treid same with redhat and it worked is it a debian issue? Regards, Vijaya