Firstly, let me apologies for not appearing to have RTFM. I have. I have searched web sites, mailing list archives and I have had no luck.
I am by background a BSD type person - sorry - but now I find myself managing a 50/50 BSD/Linux environment. We have been migrating every Linux system to Debian as and when the opportunity presents itself, and we rely on apt-get to do updates etc. Not a single (non-kernel) issue until now. At some point in October new version of useradd and related tools were installed and ever since that time, usernames containing '.' characters (i.e. 'peter.galbavy') are not allowed. The old users we added before then worked fine, manually added passwd/shadow entries work fine etc. Can someone with experience in this area comment what component actually changed to be this strict with usernames (maybe incorrectly ?) and suggest how I can hack (from source if necessary) a new set of tools to allow useradd to work with '.' The reason for using useradd (rather than anything else) is that we can then have a simplistic central script that uses ssh to 'useradd' all out users on all our *NIX systems. useradd exists on all our OSes and only those systems that run debian and have been updated (around October) exhibit this restriction. rgds, -- Peter Galbavy Chief Systems Officer mBlox Ltd. http://www.mblox.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
