From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 0:23:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from everest.wananchi.com (pop.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C4C37B42C for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:23:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by everest.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.22 #2) id 14u814-000CeQ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:22:42 +0300 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:22:42 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: FBSD-Q Subject: usernames with dots wash.test Message-ID: <20010430102242.B32935@everest.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , FBSD-Q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD everest.wananchi.com 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 10:19AM up 3 days, 22 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.08, 0.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi, Here is something that is a little worrying. May I kindly ask the reason why FreeBSD doesn't support the creation of usernames with dots. Linux has no problem with such usernames. I am not a fun of Linux but I'd be happy if I could find a way of having usernames with dots, as opposed to my current practice of havng to create an alias if a user wants such a name.... -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286, 00100-NAIROBI,KE. "I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building." -- Charles Schulz --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67RLCn7LIsuxjem8RAt1nAJ0Vi3oPLyzwqjzbkVUGIb5IKSWe2gCgowlh cR++dL6F7ArSJOyxOFPzg4s= =aZcH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0OAP2g/MAC+5xKAE-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message