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
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-August/msg00281.html
having a . or : in chown has nothing to do with solving the original question from Robin Green!
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
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