[wellylug] Usernames with a '.'

[Chris Hodgetts]

try a --force-badname



On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:11 +1300, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> So there I was busy playing with the shiny new Ubuntu 5.10 install (I'd 
> look pretty bloody silly turning up to the Linux Conference with a Win XP 
> laptop) and was trying to create a user 'ian.beardslee' and it was 
> spitting the dummy over things - didn't seem to like the '.'
> 
> I know that they can be done - my slackware install can.  It means that I 
> can get the username and password on the laptop and the work Windows 
> network sync'd.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to enable a '.' in the middle 
> of a username on Ubuntu 5.10?
> 
> Cheers muchly in advance,
> 
> ian(.beardslee)
> 
> 
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