usernames with capitals

[lesmikesell at gmail.com (Les Mikesell)]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 08:45, Barry Brimer wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> You might choose to use vipw and vigr to edit the above files as well.
> 
> If you use local mail spools, you will need to rename /var/spool/mail/user 
> to /var/spool/mail/USER

That's actually a different problem and a good reason by itself
not to ever use uppercase in a user login name.  Mailers on
unix-like systems usually want to lowercase the address. I've
always avoided doing this myself so I'm not sure about the
details or how to work around it.

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