Re: capitals in login name
Tomasz Kłoczko <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, > > I'm using shadow-4.0.3 from Slackware 9.1 (and other versions form > other distributions). > > Years ago I used shadow from SuSE 6.x (built 1998). "useradd" from > this ancient package accepted capitals in the login name (such as "PC- > 01"), the newer "useradd" refuses these capitals. > > I have read that Posix says capitals are allowed. > > 1. might an update to 4.0.4 help? > 2. If updating doesn't help (and capitals have to be accepted): can > you please repair the routine? This is not bug and this _is_ POSIX compliant behavior but also using capitals in login name makes problematic for example mail delivery because for MTA email adres isn't case sensitive. kloczek -- ----------------------------------------------------------- *Ludzie nie majÂą problemĂłw, tylko sobie sami je stwarzajÂą* ----------------------------------------------------------- Tomasz KÂłoczko, sys adm @zie.pg.gda.pl|*e-mail: [email protected]*