Fedora doesn't allow uppercase user names??????

From: Liza (nkunkov_at_optonline.net)
Date: 05/26/04

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    Hi,

    I'm running Fedora Core 1 and I came across a bizzare problem. I need
    to add a user who's user name must be in upper case. First I tried to
    use GNOME to go to users and groups and add user TESTUSER. I got a
    message that a user name contains upper case characters. "Please
    don't use uppercase characters in user name". Then I tried to use
    useradd command and got the same message. I had no problems creating
    the same user on a Red Hat box.
    Can you tell me if it's really true that you can't have a user name in
    uppercase? Why would there be such a difference between Red Hat and
    Fedora? Can I get around it?
    Thanks in advance.
    N.K.

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