[CentOS] usernames with capitals

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 ?


tia

Claus Derlien


Frie Funktionærer - faglig organisation og tværfaglig a-kasse - www.f-f.dk

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