[Bug 284860] Re: hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user

2008-10-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
The user and group name policy is defined in /etc/adduser.conf ( man adduser.conf for details ) by the variable NAME_REGEX . I don't know the details about this choice but for instance by being more restrictive you reduce interoperability problems between systems. You can discuss about this ch

[Bug 284860] Re: hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user

2008-10-17 Thread helge
Hi Jean-Bapiste. thanks for your help! I changed the username according to your idea. But I wonder, why hardy doesn't accept upper cases. Maybe it's a task for the next versions of ubuntu. Thankx for today, Helge -- hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 284860] Re: hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user

2008-10-17 Thread Jean-Baptiste Lallement
Thanks for your report. I think that the problem is with the username that can not start with an upper case. This is due to the default naming policy in Ubuntu. ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Incomplete -- hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bu

[Bug 284860] Re: hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user

2008-10-17 Thread helge
** Attachment added: "Bildschirmfoto-1.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18629163/Bildschirmfoto-1.png -- hardy doesn't accept the password of a new user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284860 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to