Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:52:05 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Richard Cotrina <rcc@demo.telefonica.com.pe> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Usernames with Uppercase Letters ? Message-ID: <20000703195205.B268@dialin-client.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <019701bfe554$b1516ba0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe>; from rcc@demo.telefonica.com.pe on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:10:49PM -0500 References: <019701bfe554$b1516ba0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe>
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:10:49PM -0500, Richard Cotrina wrote: > Hello everyone : > > > Is there any way to use usernames ( Login Names ) that have Uppercase > letters ? Acording with the man pages it may be only lowercase letters or > digits . Are you talking about the rather sarcastic bit in adduser(8)? That's just adduser. I do not believe there is any reason you cannont use uppercase letters. Just don't use adduser. > I have migrated users from a Windoze box, and all of them use capital > letters, but my FreeBSD 4.0 box does not recognize them ( It complains as if > the User were Unknown ). If I change one of them to only lowercase letters > it works, but I can not change all the usernames. The cases much match whatever you end up using. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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