On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:50:16AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
On Mon July 19 2010 11:16:12 Ron Johnson wrote:
Why aren't they recommended?
Back when us dinosaurs ruled the earth an upper case
login signified an upper-case-only input device, and
the login software automatically lower-cased the
Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
Hmm... just tried logging in with an all-caps name (chaged the password
to numbers only for the test), and failed to login. Is this feature(?)
gone now from getty?
How were you logging in? A real serial port login? Or just a console
login using the pty driver?
In
On 07/19/2010 11:37 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:35, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
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On 07/20/2010 12:02 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Thanks. This will simply(?) be a generic/guest account on the
centrally-located PC. It's the user that will stay logged in so that
people have quick access to Google, dict, etc.
If it is just a generic guest account then why go
Why aren't they recommended?
$ sudo adduser Guest
[sudo] password for ron:
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression
configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
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Hi,
'Cos *nix (or rather most typical *nix FSs) is case-sensitive and it
might generate confusion?
My 2¢
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On 07/19/2010 01:28 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
Hi,
'Cos *nix (or rather most typical *nix FSs) is case-sensitive and it
might generate confusion?
Eh? If you can remember that passwords are C/S, why can't you
remember that usernames are C/S?
Anyway, in a gooey world, you click on an icon.
On 7/19/2010 12:16 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Why aren't they recommended?
$ sudo adduser Guest
[sudo] password for ron:
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check
On Mon July 19 2010 11:16:12 Ron Johnson wrote:
Why aren't they recommended?
Back when us dinosaurs ruled the earth an upper case
login signified an upper-case-only input device, and
the login software automatically lower-cased the input
before validating the login.
I don't know if any such
Ron Johnson wrote:
Subject: Re: usernames that start with capital letter?
Why aren't they recommended?
A lot of things are technically allowed but historically were terrible
problems in practice. Mixed case user names. Spaces in user names.
Unusual characters in user names. All of have been
On Mon July 19 2010, Bob Proulx wrote:
Also note that there must be at least one lower case letter or getty
will assume that you are using an upper case only terminal and will
set up the tty driver to map upper case to lower case with iuclc. The
old getty manual used to recommend using only
On 07/19/2010 02:01 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Subject: Re: usernames that start with capital letter?
Why aren't they recommended?
A lot of things are technically allowed but historically were terrible
problems in practice. Mixed case user names. Spaces in user names.
[snip
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:35, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
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Anyway, in a gooey world, you click on an icon.
Heretic! ;-)
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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Ron Johnson wrote:
Thanks. This will simply(?) be a generic/guest account on the
centrally-located PC. It's the user that will stay logged in so that
people have quick access to Google, dict, etc.
If it is just a generic guest account then why go with the mixed case?
Why not just go with
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