During installation of Ubuntu 10.04 I was not allowed to use capitals in my Username. Is there any way I could change this?
1 Answer
Adding new usernames in capital:
By default capitals are not allowed in usernames.
You can use
--force-badname
to create a username in capital.(or you have to reconfigure NAME_REGEX in/etc/adduser.conf
)sudo adduser <username> --force-badname
i.e
sudo adduser JOHN --force-badname
Renaming your username in capital:
To rename your username in capital,first you have to edit
/etc/adduser.conf
and add the following lineNAME_REGEX=[A-Z,a-z,0-9]
to the end of the file.And now you can rename your username with capital letter.
Also if you want to add a new user now,you dont want to use
--force-badname
,because we have added a new expression inadduser.conf
.And so you can simply add a new username with capital letter as,
sudo adduser <USERNAME>
i.esudo adduser JOHN
NOTE:
- However i wouldn't suggest using capitals in a case sensitive OS.
- Use it in your own risk.
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Doesn't adduser add another user? I just want to rename mine.– Buff n' LoreDec 30, 2010 at 21:48
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