It's probably simply a problem with the shell's special treatment of &.
I don't know how qmailadmin works, but we have a shell script for adding
user accounts. In such cases, we have to call the command similar to:
# create_user.sh f\&b
That is, we quote the & character, and everythin
Title: RE: Cannot creating user account with an & in qmailadmin
never used qmailadmin, just use the shell.
to do this, create an alias like this :
useradd fb
passwd fb (set the passwd)
echo "&[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > "/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-f&b"
> john wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create user account in qmail using qmailadmin and I am
> unable to create a user for example f&b.
>
> Why does this have so much restriction ? Can I create it?
>
> Regards
> John
f&b is not a valid user name. I think.
Ken Jones
