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). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com