Bug 177125 - useradd fails when creating users with capitals in username
Summary: useradd fails when creating users with capitals in username
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: shadow-utils
Version: 3.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Vrabec
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-06 15:22 UTC by Justin Marie
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-18 12:46:20 UTC
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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


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