On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:58:38PM +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote: > Hello everyone, > > For compatibility reasons, I need to add a user with a dot (.) in his > name. "adduser" does not allow this, even if I invoke it with the > parameter "--force-badname". > > Can anyone show me a possibility to make "adduser" ignore this > restriction for this one time? The user is only for cvs access via > pserver, he does not need a home directory and interactive shell access.
just ignore adduser. Add the user by hand to the passwd and shadow files, and change his password with passwd. > > Regards, > > Andreas > > -- > Andreas Schildbach - Java J2EE software development and architecture > http://www.schildbach.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
