Re: capitals in login name

[email protected] (Helmut Hullen)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.pld.shadow.general
Organization Hullen
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hallo, Tomasz,

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

>> 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.

> You have access to shadow source code.

But I prefer using "ready for use" tarballs. I don't like doing things  
other people can do better.

> You also have access to SMB accounts database for performa some
> neccessary reorganization.

I have now found "passwd_4.0.3-28_i386.deb"; it contains a "useradd"  
which allows capitals.
Converting a *.deb packet into a tarball is simple.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut
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