Re: capitals in login name

Hallo, Tomasz,

Du meintest am 16.05.04 zum Thema Re: capitals in login name:

>> 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.

Maybe it's POSIX compliant.
But I have problems with machine accounts for Samba. They seem to need  
capitals.

I don't believe that it is a good decision to forbid capitals for all  
cases when only some applications may get difficulties.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut