On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:07:43 iZoli wrote:
> So my feature request would be to support uppercase letters in usernames,
Can you explain *why* you would want this?
> like in openSUSE and Fedora.
In my opinion, this isn't a good reason.
Note that most tools are case insensitive, so for example, you can already log in with your username in any case you like:
[bgmilne@tiger ~]$ id -un
bgmilne
[bgmilne@tiger ~]$ echo $USER
bgmilne
[bgmilne@tiger ~]$ ssh BGMILNE@localhost id -un
bgmilne
In most cases, what is displayed to the user in any situation where a friendly name is expected, the GECOS field, which is case sensitive and supports uppercase, is used.
I really just don't see the point ...
Regards,
Buchan