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

Wed Dec 14 13:12:51 CET 2011

On 14 December 2011 12:03, Simon Parsons <nzg at jrc.co.uk> wrote:
+> On 14/12/2011 11:00, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
+>
+>>
+>> 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.
+>
+>
+> Simon
+>
+>
+
+I have no idea how they do, or if it is relevent, but PCBSD allow
+capitals in usernames.
+