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[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan@xxxxxxx>]

I don't remember the rationale for that restriction, if there is one.
users-admin is a cross-platform tool, so one would have to check that
all platforms allow upper case letters before making such a change.
Anyways, the gnome-system-tools are deprecated now, and nobody is
working on them, so I don't see this change happening. Users shouldn't
have to deal with Unix groups on normal systems - if they do, that's a
bug in the relevant packages.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879453

Title:
  users-admin tool enforces policy it has no authority over

Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While some people frown upon capital letters in group names there is
  nothing in Debian policy that disallows them.  Yet, users-admin will
  refuse to operate on such groups and even throw out incorrect
  information as in "Please set a valid group name consisting of a lower
  case letter followed by lower case letters and numbers."

  Reference: bug 245791

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