Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm setting up a new Etch system and just got to the point where it asks > me for a username. All my life I've used my first name, Hal, as a > username (although in all lower case). > > Etch won't let me do this. I did it in Sarge, did it in earlier > versions, did it in Mandrake, Redhat, and also use it in Ubuntu. And > now Etch won't let me use "hal" as a login name. > ...
I'm running Etch and it lets me add user hal: % sudo adduser hal Adding user `hal' ... Adding new group `hal' (1003) ... Adding new user `hal' (1003) with group `hal' ... Creating home directory `/home/hal' ... Copying files from `/etc/skel' ... New UNIX password: ... % getent passwd ... hal:x:1003:1003::/home/hal:/bin/bash Uname says: Linux viilipytty 2.6.22-4-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 10:29:27 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux and /etc/debian_version: 4.0 Tried that on another Etch box. Works ok, too. :/ -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
