Mageia insists users must be lowercase only

[NickC]

Only a very minor gripe but having just done my first Mageia install the only issue that stands out is that Mageia insists on usernames being lowercase only.

I know that doing everything in lowercase is very much a Linux thing but even the rather staid CentOS allows mixed case usernames. That lets us keep the same (mixed-case) username that we have in Windows.

[oj]

If interoperability is the issue, you can map the linux user name to the samba , aka windows user name.

[doktor5000]

Depends which tool you used. In general it's not problem to add such a user. See man-pages of useradd f.ex.

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[doktor5000@Mageia2 ~]$ sudo useradd UPPERCase
[doktor5000@Mageia2 ~]$ id UPPERCase
uid=502(UPPERCase) gid=502(UPPERCase) Gruppen=502(UPPERCase)

[NickC]

Interesting that, MixedCase users can be added from the command line but not from Mageia Control Center. Is this considered a bug in MCC?

[doktor5000]

Well, the question would be what is the thought behind not allowing uppercase characters for usernames via userdrake ...
But you could report it and see what comes out of it.

[NickC]

Just had a go at reporting this as a bug but reporting system requires me to specify which RPM package this is related to. How can I find out which RPM Mageia Control Center comes from?

Edit:
Now found a 'Report bug' option on the help menu which I didn't know was there. This revealed that the package in question is 'userdrake'. Bug now reported.

[doktor5000]

FWIW you can use the which command to find out the full path of a program, and then rpm -qf on that full path to see which package this comes from.
In this case you could have done:

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rpm -qf $(which userdrake)

This is also contained on the wiki page with the instructions:

Source RPM: This is where you can identify exactly which RPM package is involved in this bug report. For instance, if you know the problem you are having is with the program mysqld, then execute rpm -qif /usr/sbin/mysqld. This will tell you the name and version of the RPM package (i.e. MySQL-5.0.27-1mga1) as well as other information. In particular, you are looking for the "Source RPM" field (i.e. MySQL-5.0.27-1mga1.src.rpm) -- this is the information you should provide here. Alternatively, you may use rpm -qf /usr/sbin/mysqld --qf '%{SOURCERPM}\n' to obtain the information. If you do not know the location of the program in question, use rpm -qf `which mysqld` to obtain it.

[junk_no_spam]

Just had a go at reporting this as a bug but reporting system requires me to specify which RPM package this is related to. How can I find out which RPM Mageia Control Center comes from?

Some times you can enable the Display Logs feature under Options tab found on the mcc screen and see the name of the app mcc is calling/using.

For any other file/app/... I run the following script I created.

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#!/bin/bash
#*****************************************************************************
#*
#* get_src_rpm - get pkg and source rpm name for application or file
#*               to use during bug reporting.
#*
#* Install: chmod +x get_src_rpm
#*
#*****************************************************************************

    set -u
    _exe=$0

    if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
      echo "
        Usage:  $_exe app_name or full file spec
        Examples:
        $_exe xterm
        $_exe /usr/share/applications/kde4/kplayer.desktop
      "
      exit 1
    fi

    _arg1=$1

    _char1="${_arg1:0:1}"
    if [ "$_char1" = "/" ] ; then
      _fn=$_arg1
    else   # user gave an app name. Lets see if we can find it.
      which $_arg1 > /dev/null 2>&1
      if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then   # nope, tell user we can not find it.
        echo " "
        which $_arg1
        exit 1
      fi

      _fn="$(which $_arg1)"
    fi

    echo "
      Install rpm: $(rpm -qf $_fn )
      $(rpm --query --queryformat 'Source rpm: %{SOURCERPM}' --file $_fn )
    "

#************** end get_src_rpm **********************************************