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Re: are the usernames case-insensitive?



Andrei Ivanov writes:
> AFAIK, everything in Linux is case-sensitive.  Reason behind not being
> able to make user Mario is that user names do not generally contain upper
> case letters. You can --force it, though.

But it isn't a good idea.  According to the RFC's email addresses are not
supposed to be case-sensitive.  This means that some MTA's may confound
mario and Mario.
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