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Old 06-23-2017
I've not had an issue with all capital letter users either, except on the console. There I would fail a login using any random lower-case characters and then you can login with the one you want.

I ran AIX, Solaris (2.5 to v8), HP-UX 11.11, Dynix 4 and RHEL 5 & 6 quite happily like this. Our application required all capitals because it was originally grown on an IBM mainframe running VM/XA & MVS/ESA (gosh I'm old! Smilie) and they assumed every user account was only capitals.



Login over the network seemed never to be a problem. Are we worried about users defined in LDAP / AD perhaps etc.? We'd gone away from user login to the server by that point so they logged in to the application instead.


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axspawn.conf

AXSPAWN.CONF(5) 					     Linux Programmer's Manual						   AXSPAWN.CONF(5)

NAME

       axspawn.conf - Control the operation of axspawn.

DESCRIPTION

       The axspawn.conf file controls the operation of the axspawn(8) program. The operation of the config file can best be seen in an example:

	      # this is /etc/ax25/axspawn.conf
	      #
	      # allow automatic creation of user accounts
	      create	yes
	      # allow empty password field (so user may login via telnet, too) [default no]
	      create_empty_password	  no
	      #create_empty_password	   yes
	      # create with system utility useradd(8)? [default no]
	      #create_with_useradd  no
	      create_with_useradd  yes
	      #
	      # pwcheck method: password or call or group. [default: password]
	      #pwcheck call
	      #pwcheck group
	      pwcheck password
	      #
	      # guest user if above is 'no' or everything else
	      # fails. Disable with "no"
	      guest	guest
	      #
	      # group id or name for autoaccount
	      group	hams
	      #
	      # first user id to use
	      first_uid 400
	      #
	      # maximum user id
	      max_uid	2000
	      #
	      # where to add the home directory for the new user
	      home	/home/hams
	      #
	      # secure homedirectories (g-rwx)
	      #secure_home yes
	      #
	      # user's shell
	      shell	/bin/bash
	      #
	      # bind user id to callsign for outgoing connects.
	      associate yes

       The  "associate"  option  has to be used with great care. If a user logs on it removes any existing callsign from the translation table for
       this userid and replaces it with the callsign and SSID of the user. This will happen  with  multiple  connects  (same  callsign,  different
       SSIDs), too. Unless you want your users to be able to call out from your machine disable "associate".

FILES

       /etc/ax25/axspawn.conf

SEE ALSO

       axspawn(8).

Linux								   2 August 1996						   AXSPAWN.CONF(5)