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+ <H1>[Mageia-discuss] Feature request: uppercase letters in user names</H1>
+ <B>iZoli</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-discuss] Feature request: uppercase letters in user names">zoltan.ilyes at gmail.com
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+ <I>Wed Dec 14 14:22:37 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>There is no technical reason, just aesthetic. iZoli username looks better
+than izoli, that's it. If you work with command line, the username is
+displayed.
+It won't break my heart if this will be rejected.
+
+Regards,
+Zoli
+
+On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Buchan Milne &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net</A>&gt;wrote:
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+&gt;<i> **
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:07:43 iZoli wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; So my feature request would be to support uppercase letters in usernames,
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Can you explain *why* you would want this?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> &gt; like in openSUSE and Fedora.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> In my opinion, this isn't a good reason.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Note that most tools are case insensitive, so for example, you can already
+</I>&gt;<i> log in with your username in any case you like:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">bgmilne at tiger</A> ~]$ id -un
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> bgmilne
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">bgmilne at tiger</A> ~]$ echo $USER
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> bgmilne
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">bgmilne at tiger</A> ~]$ ssh <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">BGMILNE at localhost</A> id -un
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> bgmilne
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> In most cases, what is displayed to the user in any situation where a
+</I>&gt;<i> friendly name is expected, the GECOS field, which is case sensitive and
+</I>&gt;<i> supports uppercase, is used.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I really just don't see the point ...
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Regards,
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Buchan
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