Bug 106701
| Summary: | Uppercase characters not allowed in passwd and group | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Fernando Schapachnik <fernando> |
| Component: | shadow-utils | Assignee: | Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-02-21 18:59:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Capital letters breaks at least sendmail, see other bugs for comments. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89677 *** Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021203 Description of problem: Uppercase characters are not allowed in /etc/passwd and /etc/group (more to the point: they are rejected by {user,group}{add,mod}. The problem lies in: chkname.c:22 -> good_name Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.useradd JOE Actual Results: invalid user name 'JOE' Expected Results: Ok Additional info: Uppercase usernames/groups are needed for Samba.