adduser and captical letters in user name

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 28 05:23:47 UTC 2011


On Thursday 18 August 2011 09:42, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> 
> Noticed that busybox(v1.14.2 so its old) doesn't allow capital letters in user names.

it does it... how exactly? Which applet with which options refuses to take
capital letter names?

> Read on the net that some services (like sendmail) might lower cases all names before
> looking them up. The info I found was rather old though.
> 
> What is the deal with capital letters in user names these days?

Does it happen in current version?

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vda


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