It's not that it's an illegal username. It's that it violates certain
conventions.
That being said, iti shouldn't really matter to the user if they don't
have to type in an upper case letter to log in...so long as they can get
their email sent and delivered with the uppercase letter.
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, James wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vidiot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:47 AM
> Subject: Re: Upper case user names
>
>
> > >At the risk of compromising my home LAN security, I have a user name on
> my
> > >RedHat box - "James." I know, I know, it's an odd choice for a user
> name,
> > >but I like it.
> >
> > Liking has nothing to do with it. You have to fit within the rules.
> >
> (snip)
> > As far as I know, whatever package you use will have the same "problem."
> > That is because of the standardization on user name space. That way
> anyone can
> > put whatever they want for a return address and it will get delivered.
> Whatever
> > they want case wise.
> >
> > Unless the rules have changed recently, you are stuck with "james."
> >
>
> OK, so "James" is an illegal username. I can live with that - but now I
> have a question for the occaisional RedHat staffer that I see on this list.
>
> Why didn't RedHat complain when I created the user? I created this
> particular user during the install, and created another one for my wife
> after the install. If there is a lower case only naming convention, perhaps
> there should at least be a warning message displayed stating that things
> like mail delivery won't work. It would help the newbies out a little.
>
> Perhaps something for 7.1?
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
>
> er, james I guess. (i guess??)
>
>
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