Claus Derlien wrote: > --NoDisclaim-- > > I cant use an editor to mass update and change usernames as this is a part of an automatic useradd routine > written in an ancient legacy application which calls useradd and usermod, we have been using this software for more than 15 years, so its hard for me to argue for a rewrite, so im forced to bend the OS instead > > it isnt a problem on redhat 8.0, so somewhere in the patches for shadow utils. there must be a change to this behaviour.. > up until now i have created the useradds with lower case and manually converted them to upper case > > I am aware that it is a no no to use upper case usernames, but we have been doing it for years without problems so... > > thanks for the answers so far > > best regards > > claus derlien > > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]På > vegne af Les Mikesell > Sendt: 1. februar 2006 18:06 > Til: CentOS mailing list > Emne: Re: [CentOS] usernames with capitals > > > 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. > Can we not top post ? I really hate posting when the content is just going around and around in circles. Anyway, just so that everyone knows - this is a known issue. Expect a fix in U7 CentOS-3, or move to CentOS-4. There is specific policy in place that prevents Uppercase logins from being created. hth, - K -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq