Creating User

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AlpoG

Gud day!

I am using FreeBSD server for IRC services, creating user in home directory name AlpoG but when it's done the user automatically into small letter alpog. combination of caps and small letter doesn't recognize in freeBSD system? there's a possible way in configuration?:(

thanks sa info in advance.
 
the pow'r to destroy an entire planet is insignificant compared to the pow'r of pw(8)

Which tool did you use, in the first place?

(hopefully someone else can chime in, since I'm woefully ignorant, but something probably calls tolower(3) at some point in the process, depending)

In any case, if you jump through enough hoops (some experimentation is needed for me) pw(8) seem to be the tool to use, I can create users with arbitrarily capitalized home dirs just fine.

Something akin to # pw useradd ManBearPig -d /home/ManBearPig -g group -G more,groups -m -s /bin/sh (set password externally with passwd(1))

Code: 
> ls -l /home
...
drwxr-xr-x    2 ManBearPig  ManBearPig   512 Jul 21 21:24 ManBearPig
...
 
Don't use capital letters in usernames. Usernames on *nix are always lower case.
 
Note that using mixed-case in usernames has strange effects (like local email not working).
 
SirDice said:
Don't use capital letters in usernames. Usernames on *nix are always lower case.
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Usernames can be any case on Unix systems.

It's recommended and suggested that one always use lowercase names, but there is nothing stopping the system from using uppercase or mixed-case usernames.

It all depends on how you create the user, whether or not the non-lowercase versions will work.
 
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