Adding users with first.last name

[David Gavin]

 Chris,

   Using a period in a username will cause you nothing but problems (even
if you insert it manually into /etc/passwd) - period is used in regular
expressions as an "any character" token. Use an underscore, useradd
will accept it, i.e. "john_doe"

 Dave Gavin

Chris said:
> Hi all,
>
> Hope this is the right list :)
> I'm using Fedora Core 2, updated.
>
> Is it possible to add users to the system using a first.last name
> form? I get an error when attempting it: ' useradd: invalid user name
> 'john.doe'. I have to add about 800 names to a mail server and
> shortened versions would have duplicates, I have an older RH 8.0
> server that I've been able to add users with this user name form, but
> I couldn't see any difference with any config that would allow it.
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
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