FC and group names
James Wilkinson
james at westexe.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 12 17:38:16 UTC 2004
Mike McMullen wrote:
> I've noticed in FC1&2 that when you create groups it won't allow mixed case
> or all cap group names.
>
> When I migrated from 7.3 and 9 to FC1&2, group names with mixed case came
> over just fine. It's only when adding new groups that I get the following error:
>
>
> groupadd: MyGroup is a not a valid group name
>
Works for me, at least in FC3.
You could always try manipulating /etc/group and /etc/gshadow
directly...
James.
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