[SOLVED] UNIX username with numbers in it?

fourhead · Last edited by fourhead on Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:24 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello, I just found out that it seems not to be possible to create a UNIX user that starts with a number, like '80user' for example, but 'user80' works well. Damn, is there a way to get around this?

Tom

fourhead · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:24 pm Post subject:

Well I solved it I think. I manually created a user '123test' by adding the appropiate lines into /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/group. Login works, chown, chmod work, I can use KDE with it, SSH works ... no problems yet. It seems that ony useradd has problems with it, everything else I tried s far works. Well, I'll test it ...

Tom

DayLung · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Mar 2003 Posts: 80

I was always told unix usernames should start with a lowecase letter, but i have been unbale to find any list of restrictions, if there is a list of restrictions somewhere out there i'd like to see it

fourhead · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:40 pm Post subject:

I did also search for such a list, didn't find anything. I was always told UNIX usernames must be all lowercase, that was it. Well I'm working with this username right now, and so far everything works just fine, I hope it stays this way :-)

Tom