Bug 106701 - Uppercase characters not allowed in passwd and group
Summary: Uppercase characters not allowed in passwd and group
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 89677
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL:
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-10-09 18:32 UTC by Fernando Schapachnik
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:58 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:59:02 UTC
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Description Fernando Schapachnik 2003-10-09 18:32:00 UTC
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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.

Comment 1 Milan Kerslager 2003-10-23 04:45:36 UTC
Capital letters breaks at least sendmail, see other bugs for comments.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 89677 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:59:02 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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