From: Pandey, Abhimanyu (apandey@worcester.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 31 2006 - 11:39:34 EDT
ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
> We have a requirement that all unix usernames should be capital
> letters.
> i.e. my username could be ABHIPANDEY or ABPANDEY.
> Solaris 10 1/06 does
> not like this since it needs at least one lower case character). My
> system operator uses solaris management console and I was wondering if
> there is anyway to change the username rules so that we don't have to
> re-educate the end users about their usernames.
>
Everyone mentioned that I need to change this rule. My DBA agreed. I
have since then convinced them to change it all to lowercase. I'll
script to batch process the change for all users at once in /etc/passwd
and /etc/shadow and mvdir /UPPER /lower home directories.
Thanks to all:
Bill Wang
David Breneman
Kiem Nguyen
Michael Maciolek
Mohammed 10vir
Rich Teer
Abhimanyu Pandey
Information Technologies
Worcester State College
Worcester, MA 01602
Office: 508-929-8913
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