Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:51:54 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov (Guy Helmer), root@nussi.ml.org, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug ? Message-ID: <19990311115154.22937.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199903102154.QAA02246@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:54:05 EST References: <199903102154.QAA02246@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> > > 1. why i cant remove a user with big letters ? > > > e.g. i cant delete "Nussi" because its not alphanummeric > > > but i can delete "nussi" ... > > > what can i do to remove a user without "rmuser" ? > > > i really need this and when its not possible to remove names > > > with big letters i must change back to Linux :( > > > > Hmm, that's a simple change (I wonder why this hasn't come up before?). > > Because, as pointed out in 'man adduser,' > > RESTRICTIONS > username > Login name. May contain only lowercase characters or digits. > ^^^^^^^^^ This is for hysterical (sorry, historical) reasons -- back in the days when lots of people had terminals that only did UPPERCASE, Unix was kind enough to do free conversions for them, since Unix needs lower case for lots of ordinary stuff. The way this was arranged was by the simple expedient of declaring that the conversion was to be applied if a login name was typed in upper case. This meant that there was no way of actually logging in with an upper case name. > You should not have uppercase characters in a username in the first > place. I personally like the sarcasm in there. If FreeBSD still does this case conversion stuff, it's time to drop it since nobody needs to login from such a device now. If it doesn't, then this advice is now wrong. (I haven't checked what it does -- I don't care myself, since I only use and allow lower case names because that's the way I like things.) -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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