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 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Jul 31 11:40:05 2006
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