I had the same issue and Fedora Core 1. This is a bug in RedHat. This is how I resolved it. Add the user using all lower-case letters first. Then edit the user and group names to how you want them in the /etc/passwd, /etc/group, and /etc/shadow files. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rajanish Rai Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:17 To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: adding user starting with caps letter fails on linux I tried to add user with name 'NewUser' and got following message - useradd: invalid user name 'NewUser' Can someone help me to know the reason behind it? Thanx raja __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
