[Mageia-discuss] Feature request: uppercase letters in user names

Wed Dec 14 13:03:43 CET 2011

On 14/12/2011 11:00, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
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+>
+> The local-part of the email address may use any of these ASCII characters RFC
+> 5322 Section 3.2.3:
+> <snip>
+>
+> Ron.
+
+I suppose this has been thought about many times, but let's have another go:
+
+Unix name: simonnzg
+Real Name: Simon Parsons
+e-mail name: well, lots of them, actually.
+
+User names do not have to be equal to e-mail names. That's what 
+/etc/aliases is for, amongst other things.
+
+It's a bad idea to have a fixed distinction between upper and lower case 
+user names - people, word processors and mobile text input systems tend 
+to capitalise names so most pragmatic e-mail systems assume "a=A", for 
+instance.
+
+There is no reason why it should not be possible to alias user names so 
+that they log on with whatever they want, but their "real" Unix user 
+name is all lower case.  This happens with Samba now and the standard 
+Mageia "click on your name to login" login screen uses the user's name 
+rather than the Unix user name.
+
+In this case, it MAY be possible to add an option for a "click on your 
+capitalised user name to login", but I don't know if that's worthwhile. 
+  If a user wants to be known as SimonNZG instead of simonnzg (in my 
+case), then that is usually usually because it's a team login and not an 
+individual one, so the user's Real Name can be set to SimonNZG and the 
+problem is solved.
+
+Additionally, you could simply make the name entered into the login box 
+case agnostic, but that would no-doubt break all sorts of stuff if it 
+wasn't mapped to a real Unix user name. It's perfectly doable, though.
+
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+Simon
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