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Description of problem: Able to create users such as Bob, Larry and Tom with a capital first letter Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F13-Alpha How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F13-Alpha 2. Upon First Boot choose a username with leading Capital 3. It will be accepted. Actual results: Expected results: Leading capitals and I believe any capitals in usernames should be rejected per long standing linux standards Additional info:
Thank you for the bug report. Neither of the text-mode or graphical user/group management tools restrict user accounts to all lowercase. # useradd -p '' Guest # getent passwd Guest Guest:x:501:501::/home/Guest:/bin/bash In additional, the documentation [1] places no restrictions on case sensitivity for user account names. [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/deployment-guide/f12/en-US/html/ch-users-groups.html#s2-redhat-config-users-user-new
Thanks for the information James. I'm marking this closed not a bug if that is the intended and allowable behavior. Several in #fedora felt that Ucase First Letter should not be allowed. Thus the reason I reported it.