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Re: usernames that start with capital letter?



On 7/19/2010 12:16 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Why aren't they recommended?
> 
> $ sudo adduser Guest
> [sudo] password for ron:
> adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
> via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable.  Use the `--force-badname'
> option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.

Because in a Unix-based operating system, standard practicing philosophy
dictates that usernames, groups, filenames, directories, init scripts,
etc are all in lowercase. Sometimes, using an LDAP/NIS/CIFS domain
changes this practice.

-- 
. O .   O . O   . . O   O . .   . O .
. . O   . O O   O . O   . O O   . . O
O O O   . O .   . O O   O O .   O O O

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