On Fri,10.Oct.08, 01:50:56, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm setting up a new Etch system and just got to the point where it asks > me for a username. All my life I've used my first name, Hal, as a > username (although in all lower case). > > Etch won't let me do this. I did it in Sarge, did it in earlier > versions, did it in Mandrake, Redhat, and also use it in Ubuntu. And > now Etch won't let me use "hal" as a login name. It works on sid (and probably also lenny): # LANG=C adduser hal Adding user `hal' ... Adding new group `hal' (1002) ... Adding new user `hal' (1002) with group `hal' ... Creating home directory `/home/hal' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully Changing the user information for hal Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default Full Name []: Room Number []: Work Phone []: Home Phone []: Other []: Is the information correct? [Y/n] # What is the error message you get? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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