Usernames
Nils Philippsen
nphilipp at redhat.com
Fri Aug 22 06:15:40 UTC 2003
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 00:22, Charles Bronson wrote:
> Maybe this is the wrong list to ask this on. If so, please accept my appogies
> and kindly redirect me.
>
> I noticed in Shrike and now Severn that usernames can only be lowercase (at
> least in the GUI tool, I haven't checked useradd). I am wondering why caps are
> no longer allowed?
Maybe because various MTAs map uppercase to lowercase and so having both
"user" and "User" will lead to confusion (who will get
<User at domain.com>)? Just a guess.
Nils
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