From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux) Description of problem: useradd does not allow dots in the username. See the error it gives. # useradd rishi.g useradd: invalid user name 'rishi.g' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.3-6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. useradd abc.xyz Actual Results: useradd: invalid user name 'abc.xyz' Expected Results: it should have returned to the prompt without an error and created the user in the system. Additional info: I've posted this pub on a newsgroup. See the thread for responses to it. http://www.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=1e6d1789.0309050810.45e1cf51%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fsafe%3Dimages%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26as_uauthors%3Drishi%40theargoncompany.com%26lr%3D%26hl%3Den Another nice person gave me a patch for the file 'chkname.c' that is buggy. I would be happy to sent the patch for this program.
Created attachment 94389 [details] Patch for chkname.c This is a patch that "Torsten Finke" created and sent to me via e-mail. Notes from the author... - there is absolutely no warranty; ;-)
I am also experiencing this problem. Have you tested against the beta of RHES AS 3.0? I have a customer who just went live and has 6,000 users on AS 2.1. Every username has a . in it. If this problem exists in AS 3.0, that will preclude any future upgrades, without customizing shadow_utils.
The patch #94389 does not work. See bug #89205 for better solution. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89205 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.