Am Di, den 17.02.2004 schrieb Michael Kearey um 09:39: > Hi There, > > I have several multi-user machines running Redhat 8.0. There are > hundreds of usernames on these machines that have mixture of upper and > lowercase. > > I may be able to just upgrade, but I would prefer to install new > Fedora, and automate adding the existing users on old Redhat 8.0 > machines to new Fedora ones.. (Several reasons for doing this, but not > relevent here) > > I have since discovered that Fedora (And Redhat of course) at some > stage changed , or maybe more properly, now enforces usernames to > allow only lowercase. > > I'd like to know precise details : > > Why the change? I can not confirm that it was a change as I never used uppercase letters, but I can say it was ever a good idea to use just lowercase letters and no special signs. For problems with Sendmail using uppercase letters in usernames see http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section4.html#4.17 > Any simple way to circumvent the 'feature' (I know vipw allows you to > do it, but I need an automated way !!) > > Is there a changelog anywhere in appropriate rpms that explain the change? > > Any other advice and info would be much appreciated. > > Cheers, > Michael Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2166.nptl Sirendipity 19:37:59 up 2 days, 23:16, load average: 0.14, 0.23, 0.20 [ ÎÎÏÎÎ Ï'ÎÏÏÎÎ - gnothi seauton ]
