From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: groupadd rejects upper case characters in the group name. # groupadd FOOBAR groupadd: FOOBAR is a not a valid group name IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 specifies that user and group names are composed of characters from the portable filename character set. The portable filename character set is defined as [a-z][A-Z][0-9][._-]. Therefore the group name is valid according to POSIX and I'm very surprised to find that groupadd doesn't accept this group name. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): shadow-utils-4.0.3-25.RHEL3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. groupadd FOOBAR Actual Results: groupadd: FOOBAR is a not a valid group name Expected Results: The group should be created. Additional info:
It's fixed in shadow-utils-4.0.3-26.RHEL3 in next update.