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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Feature request: uppercase letters in user names</H1>
+ <B>Buchan Milne</B>
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+ <I>Wed Dec 14 13:39:49 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:07:43 iZoli wrote:
+&gt;<i> So my feature request would be to support uppercase letters in usernames,
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+Can you explain *why* you would want this?
+
+&gt;<i> like in openSUSE and Fedora.
+</I>
+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:
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+[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">bgmilne at tiger</A> ~]$ id -un
+bgmilne
+[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">bgmilne at tiger</A> ~]$ echo $USER
+bgmilne
+[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">bgmilne at tiger</A> ~]$ ssh <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">BGMILNE at localhost</A> id -un
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+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
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