Both of those characters will cause problems in the pw file of most *nix
anyways. You should avoid using them. I have found that escaping the ' in
some os will at least allow it to display properly.
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> An apostrephy (') will do the same thing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tren.
>
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> On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Peter Brezny wrote:
>
> > I noticed today that placing a ':' in a user's long name from inside
> > qmailadmin (ver 0.42) causes the user to disappear in the list.
> >
> > editing the virtual domain's vpasswd file and removing the offending ':'
> > fixes the problem.
> >
> > I was doing this to add more information to that field since we have a lot
> > of users in the same virtual domain, but at separate physical offices.
> >
> > Jane Doe : downtown office.
> >
> > I'm happy just using a ',' however.
> >
> > Peter Brezny
> > SysAdmin Services Inc.
> >
> >
>
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