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mr-simon
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 Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:43 pm Post subject: @ sign in username? |
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Before I removed horrible redhat from my box I could do this:
useradd foo@bar.com
(not graceful I know, but I found it useful for keeping track of some things)
Now that I have gentoo, when I say:
useradd foo@bar.com
it says:
useradd: invalid user name 'foo@bar.com'
Can anyone suggest a special trick to allow me to create usernames with @ signs in them 
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Zr40
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: @ sign in username? |
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| mr-simon wrote: | Before I removed horrible redhat from my box I could do this:
useradd foo@bar.com
(not graceful I know, but I found it useful for keeping track of some things)
Now that I have gentoo, when I say:
useradd foo@bar.com
it says:
useradd: invalid user name 'foo@bar.com'
Can anyone suggest a special trick to allow me to create usernames with @ signs in them |
You'd be surprised to know . is also not allowed. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2002 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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You might want to read this post. After that, this thread might help.
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