Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-15 Thread Janne Johansson
2012/8/14 Eike Lantzsch : > On Monday 13 August 2012 12:23:51 Theo de Raadt wrote: >> It is good sense to push unix users into a mentality that usernames >> should be lower case by default. > You sure pushed me into it ;-) > I see it now: > simplicity ("Administrator" is just awful "root" is a lot

Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 13 August 2012 12:23:51 Theo de Raadt wrote: > It is good sense to push unix users into a mentality that usernames > should be lower case by default. You sure pushed me into it ;-) I see it now: simplicity ("Administrator" is just awful "root" is a lot better) avoiding confusion (third-pa

Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Monday 13 August 2012 10:20:16 Michael Lambert wrote: > On 13 Aug 2012, at 09:20, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > The choice of usernames during OBSD install is more restrictive than > > adduser. > > > For example install does not allow capital letters in usernames. > > I read up the facts but I'd li

Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Jack Woehr
Theo de Raadt wrote: It is good sense to push unix users into a mentality that usernames should be lower case by default. "Tis a gift to be simple" ... every time "plane" vanilla admin is warped to enable some unnecessary feature that tickles the user's fancy, eventually problems emerge. Why l

Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Joel Carnat
AFAIK, there is every likelihood that a third-party software (like Web or Mail server) will not be case-sensitive and will mix data for Foo and foO users. Le 13 août 2012 à 15:20, Eike Lantzsch a écrit : > The choice of usernames during OBSD install is more restrictive than adduser. > For example

Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Theo de Raadt
It is good sense to push unix users into a mentality that usernames should be lower case by default. I don't see any reason to change it. > The choice of usernames during OBSD install is more restrictive than adduser. > For example install does not allow capital letters in usernames. > I read up

Re: Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Michael Lambert
On 13 Aug 2012, at 09:20, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > The choice of usernames during OBSD install is more restrictive than adduser. > For example install does not allow capital letters in usernames. > I read up the facts but I'd like to know the reasons. > > I do not seem to find an answer to my questi

Q: username policy in install and in adduser

2012-08-13 Thread Eike Lantzsch
The choice of usernames during OBSD install is more restrictive than adduser. For example install does not allow capital letters in usernames. I read up the facts but I'd like to know the reasons. I do not seem to find an answer to my question: What benefit is there in not using capital letters