useradd not accepting dot so i am not able to use dot in mail id
i am new to linux. and i started learning from redhat 9.0 so i am not much familiar with previous versions and i installed sendmail in my machine. but my manager wants to have a format for mail ids and he asked for a format
firstname.lastname@something.com but when start creating users with useradd, its not accepting .(dot) in the username. plz help me out if any alternatives are there. advanced thanks for u r help |
Have you tried to manually add the user, adding to the passwd file, and so on?
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i have added manually to /ec/passwd file
example: test1.test:x:555:555::/home/test1.test:/bin/bash and when i am trying to change the passwd using passwd test1.test i am getting fallowing message passwd test1.test Changing password for user test1.test. passwd: Authentication token manipulation error and when i manually set the passwd in place of x in passwd file there is happening a authentication failure. when see to login to system with that username and passwd its telling passwd is incorrect. |
i have the same probleme with useradd, but manually adding the user works with fedora core 1
Is there a reason for useradd not to accept dot's in a username? Or is it a tiny bug? best regards, strub PS: @ hanu: u also have to edit /etc/shadow and maybe create a proper group in /etc/group and /etc/gshadow |
hi struberg
i tried like that adding to /etc/shadow file . but it dint work in redhatlinux 9 intel based . so what i did is i have created entries in /etc/aliases file like for test.test: test.test so what ever mails come for test.test will move to test_test also i have config all our outlook express with test_test nad passwds with displaying name as test.test i have few users only so i am not fasing any problems now. |
Never mind me...
Sorry. |
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