I get an invalid user name error when I try to add my work PC user name to my unRAID server. It is a single sign on number consisting of 9 digits.

 

Here is the error: useradd: invalid user name '123456789'

 

Thanks.

I get an invalid user name error when I try to add my work PC user name to my unRAID server. It is a single sign on number consisting of 9 digits.

 

Here is the error: useradd: invalid user name '123456789'

 

Thanks.

 

AS I seem to recall, ALL user names must begin with a letter and ALL letters must be lower case.

I get an invalid user name error when I try to add my work PC user name to my unRAID server. It is a single sign on number consisting of 9 digits.

 

Here is the error: useradd: invalid user name '123456789'

 

Thanks.

Please see here This type of posting is at best impolite.

I disagree. This is the correct forum for bug reports and feature requests.

I disagree. This is the correct forum for bug reports and feature requests.

 

I think jonathanm means that gitbox posted this exact question before, received an answer & created a new thread repeating the question... not that the location to ask is wrong... just to repost the same question once you have an answer is impolite.

 

The answer to gitbox is the same on both threads. His computer name needs to be changed to something starting with a letter.

I think jonathanm means that gitbox posted this exact question before, received an answer & created a new thread repeating the question... not that the location to ask is wrong... just to repost the same question once you have an answer is impolite.

Exactly.

 

I disagree. This is the correct forum for bug reports and feature requests.

If this was the correct location for the question in the first place dgaschk, why not move it here instead of answering it in the general forum? You have enough influence to get it done.

Yes, i received an answer on the other forum. I posted it here as a bug since I don't think usernames should have those restrictions. Notice that my OP is not a question. It's just a statement. I certainly did not think it was impolite, but my apologies anyway.

 

Should this be a feature request?

 

It's a pain to create a new user on my work PC (big brother scrutinizes everything) just so I can access a share for backing up. Right now I have a script that starts a backup program and then shuts the PC down - double click it and walk away. Now I have to log off, log back on as the new user and then run the script. I mean, geez, if Windows can do it, why can't Linux? :-)

This OP should have included a link to the original thread. That's what I usually do. I don't have any special powers here.

Yes, i received an answer on the other forum. I posted it here as a bug since I don't think usernames should have those restrictions. Notice that my OP is not a question. It's just a statement. I certainly did not think it was impolite, but my apologies anyway.

Sorry for jumping on you, I just assumed since the exact same post, word for word, was posted in a different forum after you had received the correct answer in the first forum, that you were either ignoring the first answer, and fishing for a different response, or that you were just too lazy to acknowledge the first response. Simply rewording your statement as a feature request would have avoided any misunderstanding.

Right, I should have reworded the OP. 

 

I just created a hidden public folder. That should solve the log in issue.