On 14 December 2011 12:03, Simon Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14/12/2011 11:00, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote: > >> >> The local-part of the email address may use any of these ASCII characters >> RFC >> 5322 Section 3.2.3: >> <snip> >> >> Ron. > > > I suppose this has been thought about many times, but let's have another go: > > Unix name: simonnzg > Real Name: Simon Parsons > e-mail name: well, lots of them, actually. > > User names do not have to be equal to e-mail names. That's what /etc/aliases > is for, amongst other things. > > It's a bad idea to have a fixed distinction between upper and lower case > user names - people, word processors and mobile text input systems tend to > capitalise names so most pragmatic e-mail systems assume "a=A", for > instance. > > There is no reason why it should not be possible to alias user names so that > they log on with whatever they want, but their "real" Unix user name is all > lower case. This happens with Samba now and the standard Mageia "click on > your name to login" login screen uses the user's name rather than the Unix > user name. > > In this case, it MAY be possible to add an option for a "click on your > capitalised user name to login", but I don't know if that's worthwhile. If > a user wants to be known as SimonNZG instead of simonnzg (in my case), then > that is usually usually because it's a team login and not an individual one, > so the user's Real Name can be set to SimonNZG and the problem is solved. > > Additionally, you could simply make the name entered into the login box case > agnostic, but that would no-doubt break all sorts of stuff if it wasn't > mapped to a real Unix user name. It's perfectly doable, though. > > > Simon > >
I have no idea how they do, or if it is relevent, but PCBSD allow capitals in usernames.
