[plug] re: User names

Paul Wilson hooker at opera.iinet.net.au
Tue Jul 27 09:30:34 WST 1999


From: Jon L. Miller <jlmiller at wantree.com.au>
> Is there a format to creating users names? by this I mean if I create a
user name such as joe.smith I get
> bounced email from joe.smith at mycompany.com.au.  Am I to assume you cannot
have the "." in a users name?

The solution that I've used in the past is to create a UNIX user 'smithj' or
somesuch, and then link 'joe.smith' to 'smithj' using the sendmail aliases
file.

It's a problem that I've come across on sites that seem to have different
username rules on different platforms.

Paul




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