[shadow] allow dot characters in login name

Jérôme Augé jerome.auge at cesamnet.fr
Fri Dec 15 20:24:31 CET 2006


Arkadiusz Miskiewicz a écrit :
> On Friday 15 December 2006 18:31, Jérôme Augé wrote:
>>
>> 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.

I didn't knew there was another package providing useradd and others
user management tools.

So, I'll give it a try on my next install and see how it behaves/changes
from the shadow package.

Thanks,
Jérôme Augé


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