[shadow] allow dot characters in login name

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Friday 15 December 2006 18:31, Jérôme Augé wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that I can't create login name containing a '.' (dot)
> character (e.g. firstname.lastname). I stumbled upon this problem when I
> needed to upgrade an older PLD Samba server where accounts where all
> created as firstname.lastname. So, I ended up patching the shadow
> package to allow dot in logins and use it instead of the PLD/ac default
> shadow pkg.
>
> What about allowing the dot character by default in the shadow package ?

Related question - do we need shadow package at all? There is well maintained 
pwdutils which replaces shadow + has more features.

ps. I don't have single server with shadow.
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