Bug 135401 - useradd can't create users with period separator first.last
Summary: useradd can't create users with period separator first.last
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eido Inoue
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 123571
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-12 15:02 UTC by Charles Tran
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 2:4.0.3-32
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-10-13 15:25:33 UTC
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Description Charles Tran 2004-10-12 15:02:39 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET 
CLR 1.1.4322)

Description of problem:
adding users to comply with M$ convention of first.last, user is not 
created..



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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.useradd first.last
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  useradd: invalid user name 

Expected Results:  create user

Additional info:

this worked in AS 2.1
Comment 1 Charles Tran 2004-10-12 15:43:26 UTC 
I found a manual work around for this..
create user firstlast
vi /etc/passwd and etc/group
move home dir firstlast >> first.last

verified that first.last does work in AS 2.1
kernel 2.4.9-e.24
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