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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unix user ID's case-sensitive? Post 45018 by Neo on Saturday 13th of December 2003 10:13:19 PM
Old 12-13-2003
No, for example, sending mail to Neo, NEO, neO or neo, etc. will all reach the same mailbox. If mail was rejected because the case didn't match, lots of mail would be rejected Smilie

Having said that, the acounts in the password file are case sensitive. So Root is not the same as root, is not the same as ROOT. For example, if the password file says 'neo' you cannot su to Neo.
Code:
www# su Neo
Unknown id: Neo

I would have to test to see if there were accounts "neo" and also "Neo" in the password file if mail would find it's way to the right mailbox...... anyone?

Neo
 

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readmail(1)						      General Commands Manual						       readmail(1)

NAME
readmail - read mail from a mail folder or incoming mailbox SYNOPSIS
folder] [number-list|pattern] DESCRIPTION
The program displays messages from your incoming mailbox or a specified mail folder. Within the mail system (see elm(1) with no operands and optionally the or option, displays the appropriate headers and the body of the cur- rent message. With the number-list operand and no options, displays the corresponding messages and a summary of the headers from your incoming mailbox. With the pattern operand and no options, displays the first message that matches the pattern and a summary of the headers from your incom- ing mailbox. Options supports the following options. Print all messages that match pattern. If no pattern was specified, this option is ignored. Use file folder for the operations instead of the incoming mailbox. Include the entire header of the matched message or messages when displaying their text. The default is to display the and lines only. Exclude all headers. Put form feeds ( between message headers. This is useful when printing sets of messages. Operands supports the following operands. number-list A blank-separated list of the ordinal locations of messages in the mail file (i.e., their "message numbers"), up to 25 at a time. The character means the last message in the mail file. Similarly, represents every message in the file (i.e., The message numbers are sorted into ascending order. Thus, produces the same output as pattern A string that is present in one of the messages. This pattern can be typed in directly (no quotes) if the words are separated by a single space in the actual message. The pattern matching is case sensitive, so and are not equiva- lent. Leading digits (on the first word) are not permitted; however, you can precede them with a space and quote the entire string, if the space occurs in the message, as in . EXAMPLES
If you are using to reply to a message from within the mail system, you can insert the text of the current message with the command: If you define an alias similar to: you can use it with a program such to peruse mail as it arrives, without needing to start a mail system (see newmail(1)). AUTHOR
was developed by HP. FILES
Incoming mailbox Temporary file for SEE ALSO
elm(1), newmail(1), vi(1). readmail(1)
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