On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 03:38, Claus Derlien wrote:
> Hi, im new to the list, so bear with me if this was discussed earlier!
>
> For historical issues we need to maintain usernames in all capitals ie. CD
>
> our test environment is running centos 3.4 - our live environment is on redhat 8.0
>
> the useradd program won't allow me to create a new user with capitals, and
> usermod wont change a lower case user name to upper case!
>
> What is my options now ? - do i have to hack the package or is there a known work around ?
If it is just for a set of existing users, I'd add them in
lowercase, then edit
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/etc/group
/etc/gshadow
and mv the /home/ directory to names you want (making sure
everything matches).
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
