On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:09:21AM -0600, inode0 wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:27:04 -0600, Jay Berryman <jay.berryman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > >From the manpage for the passwd file on RHEL 3 it clearly states that > the account field in a passwd entry should *not* contain capital > letters. > > I'm not sure it is fair to characterize this as a bug. While other > flavors of UNIX-like operating systems do allow this, Earlier releases of Red Hat Linux also allow this. It's not a bug since it's clearly documented, but it is a new restriction. > I'm not aware of > anyone who actually uses mixed-case usernames. We do :-(. We have accounts like RedHat where each word of the company name is capitalized. I didn't like and I'm personally glad that Red Hat added the restriction so our account management folks don't do that to me again. > If you have one user > named foo and another named Foo and a third named FOO where do you > suppose mail to any of these will be delivered? You may avoid > problems like this using mixed-case usernames if you keep them unique > ignoring case, but this seems like it is asking for problems to me. We don't use mail and they're all unique (I really hope!) but you're right - they are a pain the butt. I'll get phonecalls asking for help with account "redhat" and I have to first grep the passwd file trying to figure out which account they're talking about. > I'm curious about what is motivating people to want to use mixed-case > usernames in the first place? Darn customers :-) The same motivation that likes HTML for e-mail and daylight savings time. Both things that piss techies off. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
