Bug 177125

Summary:	useradd fails when creating users with capitals in username
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Justin Marie <jmarie>
Component:	shadow-utils	Assignee:	Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Justin Marie 2006-01-06 15:22:32 UTC

Description of problem:
When creating a user via 'useradd', you cannot create a user with an uppercase
letter.  'useradd' fails with "useradd: invalid user name <username>"  For
instance, this fails for my attempt at using a username with mixed alpha and
numeric characters (A012345).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
shadow-utils-4.0.3-25.RHEL3

How reproducible:
run 'useradd' with a username that has a capital letter

Steps to Reproduce:
1.useradd A012345
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Actual results:
Fails with message "useradd: invalid user name <username>"

Expected results:
Create user account

Additional info:
This but was reported in RH9 Bug 89677

Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2006-01-18 12:46:20 UTC

This problem is going to be fixed in next update(U7) in shadow-utils-4.0.3-26.RHEL3