There is no technical reason, just aesthetic. iZoli username looks better than izoli, that's it. If you work with command line, the username is displayed. It won't break my heart if this will be rejected.
Regards, Zoli On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Buchan Milne <[email protected]>wrote: > ** > > On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 00:07:43 iZoli wrote: > > > So my feature request would be to support uppercase letters in usernames, > > > Can you explain *why* you would want this? > > > > like in openSUSE and Fedora. > > > In my opinion, this isn't a good reason. > > > Note that most tools are case insensitive, so for example, you can already > log in with your username in any case you like: > > > [bgmilne@tiger ~]$ id -un > > bgmilne > > [bgmilne@tiger ~]$ echo $USER > > bgmilne > > [bgmilne@tiger ~]$ ssh BGMILNE@localhost id -un > > bgmilne > > > In most cases, what is displayed to the user in any situation where a > friendly name is expected, the GECOS field, which is case sensitive and > supports uppercase, is used. > > > I really just don't see the point ... > > > Regards, > > Buchan >
