can not create groupnames or usernames with Upper and lower characters to-gether(Ex: XXXggg)
Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
manuel at todo-linux.com
Sun Sep 3 10:13:32 UTC 2006
El Domingo, 3 de Septiembre de 2006 12:08, Padiyath Sreekumaran escribió:
> Hello,
>
> Iam OS RedHat 3.0. When I run the following command from root account
> I get the
>
> error:
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>
>
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> l_kumar]$ /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 999888 XXXggg
>
> groupadd: XXXggg is a not a valid group name
>
>
[root at Arbusto ~]# groupadd -g 999888 XXXggg
[root at Arbusto ~]# cat /etc/group | grep X
XXXggg:x:999888:
>From the man:
Groupnames must begin with a lower case letter or an underscore, and
only lower case letters, underscores, dashes, and dollar signs may
follow. In regular expression terms: [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]
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