[ic] Username contains illegal characters

Götz Verdieck interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Mar 15 10:16:01 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

I don't like to change my name because of software limitations !
- or better because of my small perl/IC knowledge ;).

Thanks to Joachim for the patch.


Best regards

Goetz Verdieck

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