Add new user GUI will not allow uppercase but doesn't tell you so
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
Fix Committed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Using the Settings window to add a new user yields two input boxes; typing an upper case letter - at least in the 'user name' as against 'full name' box - produces a little yellow exclamation mark and stops one from proceeding. There's no explanation given, so far as I can see, of what is causing the problem. I had to use the web (see http://
I am reminded a little of Douglas Adams's 'beware of the leopard' joke.
I have Linux Mint 17.1, x64 Cinnamon (but the problem is reported, at the link I cite, on Mint 17 Mate, too).
The little exclamation mark is trying to tell you something - it has a tooltip.
The actual reason, you could probably dig up, has to do with the fact that some OS's linux can interact with are not case-sensitive, and may not realize you are, in fact, trying to connect with a username of jOeuSEr and not joeuser. It's not an issue within Linux at, all, but a policy decision not to allow it that we inherit (and more or less agree with) from Ubuntu.
Btw, I can't speak for Mate's UI in this, just Cinnamon's.