Bug 112334 – cant put a . in user name, useradd is not a component!

Bug 112334 - cant put a . in user name, useradd is not a component!

Summary:	cant put a . in user name, useradd is not a component!

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2003-12-17 17:11 EST by rich adams
Modified:	2007-04-18 13:00 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 11:41:45 EDT
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Description rich adams 2003-12-17 17:11:46 EST

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Description of problem:
cant put in my user name rich.adams

Worked find in red hat 8 and before. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
9

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.adduser rich.adams
2.useradd rich.adams
3.
    

Actual Results:  useradd: invalid user name 'rich.adams'

Expected Results:  the user rich.adams is added to the password and 
group and shadow files and works from a login....

Additional info:

there are 874 hits in google search on the topic "invalid user name" 
& linux

Comment 1 rich adams 2003-12-17 17:17:01 EST

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-August/msg00281.html

Comment 2 rich adams 2003-12-17 17:18:49 EST

having a . or : in chown has nothing to do with solving the original 
question from Robin Green!

Comment 3 rich adams 2003-12-17 18:37:15 EST

Also is doesnt work to use a capitol letter or some other punctuation 
marks such as @ like we all are getting used to use in our dsl 
usernames such as w8mfd@dayton.net

Comment 4 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 11:41:45 EDT

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/

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