Re: [SLUG] lost login after upgrade

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Sun Jan 08 2006 - 19:20:34 EST


On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:18, Dennis McDonald wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> I recently upgraded to FC4 and was not able to use uppercase character
> in the username, so I lost my /Dennis and had to create /dennis. Is
> there some way to get back to this login?
> I tried creating another user with /Dennis as home but got connection
> errors trying to login.

Simply change the name manually in passwd group and shadow.

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Steve Szmidt

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