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.
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
I can confirm there was a change. Several redhat 8.0 boxes I have allow hundreds of uppercase characters usernames. My Fedora box doesn't. Therefore a change happened *somewhere*. Hence why I want to see a changelog that anounces it...
I still cannot find a reference in any documentation that specifies the valid characters for userID's. (Plain old Unix like usernames I mean).
I have to take the problem on the chin, I guess. The process of moving users across and translating their usernames etc to all lower case is the simple part. The big problem will be in comunicating the changed usernames to hundreds of users...
Many thanks, Michael
