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?
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
