I remember once facing a similar problem on FreeBSD and I had to tinker with the adduser script to achieve that functionality. It might also be possible with Fedora.
Wire > Was attempting to move users and mail from a redhat 6.2 mail server to > fedora core 1. The fedora is a fresh installation on a new machine. > > Am faced with a problem of incompatible usernames. All users on the old > server used usernames in the form of firstname.lastname but fedora > (tried redhat 9 too) doesn't allow punctuation marks in usernames. > > Does anyone know how I can disable this feature and just allow the > punctuation marks? > > Joseph > > > > --------------------------------------------- > This service is hosted on the Infocom network > http://www.infocom.co.ug --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
