On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 08:45, Barry Brimer wrote: > > 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 That's actually a different problem and a good reason by itself not to ever use uppercase in a user login name. Mailers on unix-like systems usually want to lowercase the address. I've always avoided doing this myself so I'm not sure about the details or how to work around it. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com