On 01/02/06, Claus Derlien <CD at f-f.dk> 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 ? > Not that it helps you, but this works fine on CentOS 4. [root at willspc ~]# useradd TEST [root at willspc ~]# tail -1 /etc/passwd TEST:x:1074:1074::/home/TEST:/bin/bash [root at willspc ~]# You could just create the entries yourself in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. (Obviously after creating backups copies JIC.) Will.