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

+ Buchan Milne + bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net +
+ Wed Dec 14 16:27:02 CET 2011 +

+
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On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 16:04:39 Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:
+> On Wednesday 14 Dec 2011 09:39 my mailbox was graced by a message from
+> Buchan
+> 
+> Milne who wrote:
+> > > So my feature request would be to support uppercase letters in
+> > > usernames,
+> > 
+> > Can you explain why you would want this?
+> 
+> Why not ? Is not Linux about freedom of choice ?
+> 
+> And since the system accepts upper case in user names, why restrict them at
+> the mcc/userdrake level ?
+
+Because it may not be the best choice for the user, and limit their choices 
+going forward.
+
+So, if you create the users TEST, test, Test, teSt, and later decide you want 
+to migrate them to LDAP or Samba4, which one do you want to keep?
+
+Regards,
+Buchan
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