Re: adding users in CAPS

["Chris Purcell" <redhat cjp us>]

> And if you don't want e-mail, you should be allowed to do this.  I've
> got a Linux system that's in the process of being migrated from 6.2 with
> some uppercase usernames to RHEL 3.  I'm not saying it was a good idea
> (darn help desks anyway) but I think it's just the useradd utililty
> that's rejecting the username - I don't believe it's a restriction in
> the OS.

How do you plan to work around this on your system Ed?  The only solution
I can come up with is either manually editing the passwd/shadow files or
writing a Perl script that will add the user account by appending the new
user to the end of the files.  Using the Perl script method, I'll have to
figure out which was the last UID that was used to avoid duplicates.  Not
the cleanest way to do things, but it should work.

Chris