From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 3 19:54:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6947137B551 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:54:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0025.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.250.25]) by kestrel.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19436; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00363; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:52:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 19:52:05 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Richard Cotrina Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Usernames with Uppercase Letters ? Message-ID: <20000703195205.B268@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <019701bfe554$b1516ba0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <019701bfe554$b1516ba0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe>; from rcc@demo.telefonica.com.pe on Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 08:10:49PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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