adding user starting with caps letter fails on linux

Rajanish Rai rajanishrai at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 11 05:56:01 UTC 2005


i used following command on RedHat,

   useradd NewUser

thanx
raja
   


--- "Schott, Erik J Mr ANOSC/FCBS"
<erik.schott-FCBS at NETCOM.ARMY.MIL> wrote:

> What was the exact command line string you used?
> 
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> Subject: adding user starting with caps letter fails
> on linux
> 
> 
> I tried to add user with name 'NewUser' and got
> following message -
> 
>    useradd: invalid user name 'NewUser'
> 
> Can someone help me to know the reason behind it?
> 
> Thanx
> raja
> 
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