Vijaya S wrote:
Some *nix systems can't handle special characters in usernames, so I suspect the Debian tool "adduser" doesn't allow this. The "useradd" tool, although allowing this, doesn't handle all the housekeeping tasks that "adduser" does, including creating a home directory. You'll have to do that manually, along with moving skeleton files into the directory, perhaps creating any joe.doe group in /etc/groups, etc.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?
I suspect that Redhat has tweaked its version of "useradd" to do the things that "adduser" on Debian does.
-- Kent