CentOS - Feb 2006 - Username with dots

Hi,

There is a way to allow usernames with dots like firstname.lastname.
On Red hat 7.3 it was possible, but after Fedora 1 it was blocked. How
this could be changed?

Thanks,

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Cleber P. de Souza

Am Mo, den 13.02.2006 schrieb Cleber P. de Souza um 23:36:
> There is a way to allow usernames with dots like firstname.lastname.
> On Red hat 7.3 it was possible, but after Fedora 1 it was blocked. How
> this could be changed?
> Cleber P. de Souza
This seems to become a FAQ. If you search the list archive you will find
some discussion about it.

For which reason do you think you need such kind of usernames? If it is
for mail addresses then you don't need those dotted usernames.

Alexander


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On 2/13/06, Cleber P. de Souza <cleberps at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a way to allow usernames with dots like firstname.lastname.
> On Red hat 7.3 it was possible, but after Fedora 1 it was blocked. How
> this could be changed?
We did this once on the mailing list already. It started in Dec 2005
-> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-December/thread.html 
and spilled over into Jan 2006 ->
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-January/thread.html

Have a read.

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