usernames with uppercase
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Sun Jan 18 10:51:16 PST 2004
Spades wrote:
> I tried to add a username ie. Bryan, but FreeBSD doesn't allow me
> to do so. It gives me illegal username error. Any idea how to go
> about adding usernames like 'Bryan-admin' etc.
You can create such users by directly editting the passwd database via 'vipw'
rather than by running 'adduser'. Note that the restriction exists for a good
reason (arguably), however-- expect mail delivery to break to that username,
for example...
--
-Chuck
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