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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


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