Oops!!!, My mistake. I somehow read the following text and thought it to be
related to the kernel.
Here's the extract :
The latest linux distributions do not allow having a "." in username. In this
case, the above script will fail with "useradd: invalid user name" error. The
only solution I have found so far to get around this problem, is to create a
regular user, then edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and change the username
to a domain manually. For example, if your domain is
mail.domain.com, you
could add a user "mail" first (useradd -d /home/email/mail.domain.com -g
email -m mail), then edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and change the username
"mail" to "mail.domain.com". I don't know why useradd was changed
not to
allow usernames with dots (duh). As you can see, there is a way to get around
that anyway.
http://megaz.arbuz.com/?p=qmail_howto
On Thursday 07 August 2003 09:43, Philip S Tellis wrote:
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Vinayakam Murugan wrote:
Are you sure about Debian? Coz while googling, I
came across an
article which said that the latest kernel doesn't support this.
The kernel has nothing to do with usernames. This is handled by the
shell. Where did you read this?
Philip
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