Re: [CentOS] usernames with capitals

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).