[ic] Username contains illegal characters

Stefan Hornburg Racke interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Mar 15 09:32:00 2002


Götz Verdieck <goetz.verdieck@com4office.de> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> how can I enable the use of the characters ä,ö,ü,ß (for the german users) in
> the username ?
> I get the message: Can't have 'götz' as username; it contains illegal
> characters.

You can hack UserDB.pm, but IMHO that would be silly. Why not
use goetz as username ? Or something more pleasant :-; 

Ciao
        Racke

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