Am 18.08.2011 09:42, schrieb Joakim Tjernlund: > > Noticed that busybox(v1.14.2 so its old) doesn't allow capital letters in > user names. > Read on the net that some services (like sendmail) might lower cases all > names before > looking them up. The info I found was rather old though. > > What is the deal with capital letters in user names these days? >
hi, sendmail does not allow capitals because the mail protocol does not allow capitals. Otherwise not all filesystems have a sane way to handle capitals what may lead to funny results for /home/Foo and /home/foo. re, wh _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
