[RHCE] Can't able to create user with DOTS?

[Navneet Choudhary]

Hi,

Thanks for anshwering my query.
Refer below for my response in Q's & A's format.


On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 sholton at mindspring.com wrote :
> > Any help on this regards?
>
>1. What is the command line?
>    Agruments?
>   Path?
>   Version?

#useradd navneet.kc
userdd: invalid user name 'navneet.kc'

>2. Have you checked BugZilla (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/query.cgi) for
>reports of this bug?
>
>3. What's the exact error message (or other failure indication) you recieve?

userdd: invalid user name 'navneet.kc'


>4. What were you expecting instead?  

users with decimal point in their name should be created.

i.e name.surname
Since, i am creating E-mail accounts for my users.

>What makes you thing that doing what you
>did is supposed to produce the results you expect?

I can able to create users with "." in their name.
We are using and tested it on:-

Redhat 6.2, 7.2, 7.3, 9 & Fedora Core 2
Debian 3.0 r2


>These are general suggestions which should apply to any problem you
>encounter.
>
>The general form is:
>
>- What is *it*?
>- What is *it* doing that you don't want it to do, or what is *it* not doing
>    that you want it to do?
>- What make you believe *it* is supposed to (or not supposed to) do that?

Well, i have checked.This problem/safeguard feature present in all RHEL.



>I don't have Redhat Enterprise ES 3.0 available so I'm
>not familiar with the exact problem, but if you want any chance of
>finding a solution, you'll need to start by collecting this information.


Srill wants to help me?.

Please suggest what should i do?
Bytheway i am trying my best (by googling,refrering several linux archive/mailing lists).

Thanks,
Navneet

>-----Original Message-----
> From: Navneet Choudhary <navneet_amit at rediffmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 1, 2005 10:41 AM
>To: rhce at trilug.org
>Subject: [RHCE] Can't able to create user with DOTS?
>
>
>
>hi list,
>
>    I can't able to create users having decimal point(s) in their name.
>i.e navneet.kc
>Notice: decimal point between navneet & kc.
>
>os used:
>Redhat Enterprise ES 3.0
>
>
>Any help on this regards?
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Regards,
>Navneet
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