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Bug 179093

Summary: groupadd does not allow POSIX compliant group names
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Markus Schöpflin <markus.schoepflin>
Component: shadow-utilsAssignee: Peter Vrabec <pvrabec>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Markus Schöpflin 2006-01-27 12:36:43 UTC 
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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:
Comment 1 Peter Vrabec 2006-01-30 09:43:29 UTC 
It's fixed in shadow-utils-4.0.3-26.RHEL3 in next update.