[CentOS] usernames with capitals

Barry Brimer barry.brimer at bigfoot.com
Wed Feb 1 14:45:26 UTC 2006


> 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

Barry



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