Karl Hiramoto wrote:
I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last@domain.com
Is this easy to do with linux?
I'm having no problem, just using aliases as Chris suggested.
Is there any confusion with having user.group ?
can you login to the box with username= first.last ?
Perhaps you can, but I find it valuable to have the actual login names and email addresses de-linked. One aspect (admittedly minor and debatable) is security. Login names can't necessarily be determined by email address. It also makes it easier to set up multiple accounts per-user: i.e. one for an "internal" persona, and another for "external" for mailing lists and such to help with spam control. Should an account name get leaked onto spam lists, changing a mail address shouldn't impact the user's login account. Just some thoughts. - Bob