Adding user in Mint 17 Cinnamon
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Adding user in Mint 17 Cinnamon
Whenever an attempt is made to add a user in Cinnamon's 'Users and Groups' where the 'Username' contains capital letters, pressing the 'Add' button in the modal window does nothing and returns no error message. At that point, using lower case letters and pressing the 'Add' button does nothing and returns no error message. In addition, in neither instance does the 'Cancel' button function; although, clicking the 'X' to close the window does. If on the other hand the initial attempt to add a user in Cinnamon's 'Users and Groups' where the 'Username' contains lowercase letters, pressing the 'Add' button in the modal window works and the user is added. Anyone else notice this behavior?
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Re: Adding user in Mint 17 Cinnamon
The command under the surface of Users and Groups is "useradd". Open a terminal and typescroll down to CAVEATS and you can read what can be and what can not be.
If you had used the terminal with the "useradd" command the following is the procedure that should be followed:
If you want to add a new user you can use capital letters but these are to be followed by four commas and then the name in lower case so it looks like this: Joe Blow,,,, jblow or Joe Blow,,,, joeblow
Look at how a user's name appears in a terminal window, it is all lower case.
This may require an error message to be triggered when using Users and Groups to stop attempts to type in capital letters.
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man useradd
If you had used the terminal with the "useradd" command the following is the procedure that should be followed:
If you want to add a new user you can use capital letters but these are to be followed by four commas and then the name in lower case so it looks like this: Joe Blow,,,, jblow or Joe Blow,,,, joeblow
Look at how a user's name appears in a terminal window, it is all lower case.
This may require an error message to be triggered when using Users and Groups to stop attempts to type in capital letters.
Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon
Re: Adding user in Mint 17 Cinnamon
Thanks, we'll get that fixed in Cinnamon 2.4.