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I'd like to second this, in fact all lower case logins should be a
Re: Login restrictions.
From: Aaron Lynch
Date: Friday, March 5, 1999
Time: 10:23:38 am
default that's rather difficult to turn off
Matt Simerson wrote:
>
> Shawn,
>
> One of my employees just stumbled across a real problem. We need to have
> a preference for forcing login names to be lower case. I'm not sure if
> you're familiar with the problems that will be created with mail delivery
> should a login name be entered in upper case on your unix system but it
> will be a problem.
>
> In the office, we're all smart enough to know that and make sure it's
> entered in lowers but we're looking at setting up the signup server
> and our users aren't all that smart. I can just see getting a call on
> Monday morning from Joe Luser who set up his account on Saturday but can't
> get his email.
>
> Can we set a preference forcing login names to entered in all lowers, or
> just auto-magically convert any caps in the login field to lowers?
>
> Since we're on the subject, can we also force them to use only alpha and
> numeric characters in their login name?
>
> And, last but not least, force the login name to start with an alpha
> character?
>
> Matt
>
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