From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: Re: Lowercase user names Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 23:22:45 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8737lkk5dq.fsf_-_@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfCyE-0007Aw-1x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:22:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfCy8-0000rz-6N for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:22:52 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-x232.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c05::232]:33506) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bfCy7-0000rj-0M for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 17:22:48 -0400 Received: by mail-yw0-x232.google.com with SMTP id r9so39037542ywg.0 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:22:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8737lkk5dq.fsf_-_@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Marc Dunivan , "guix-devel@gnu.org" According to [0] there is. But I think sticking to lowercase usernames isn't such a big restriction. I think adding a check that the username is lowercase and notifying the user on guix system reconfigure is just as good a solution IMO. [0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6949667/what-are-the-real-rules-for-linux-usernames-on-centos-6-and-rhel-6