Does Debian support lowercase and uppercase letters in the username and hostname or just lowercase letters only?
Thank you.
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Username & System Hostname
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Re: Username & System Hostname
User names must be lower case unless NAME_REGEX is changed in /etc/adduser.conf.
Host names are lower case by convention:
Host names are lower case by convention:
See also https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4343RFC1178 wrote: Don't expect case to be preserved.
Upper and lowercase characters look the same to a great deal of
internet software, often under the assumption that it is doing
you a favor. It may seem appropriate to capitalize a name the
same way you might do it in English, but convention dictates
that computer names appear all lowercase. (And it saves
holding down the shift key.)
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