On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Ross Cavanagh <ross.cav at gmail.com> wrote: >> Can you do a useradd command in kana or kanji? Mine was rejected, which I > think was the main concern that the username / password combination would > be in Japanese. I don't think I've encountered a non romaji home directory > - but the folders and files can be created in Japanese no problem. Right, username cannot be in Japanese : [root at c63-64ja ~]# useradd 三軒茶屋 useradd: '三軒茶屋' はユーザ名に使えません Akemi