Maybe tonight's test should be a slink install followed by a potato upgrade.
So far I have: 1) see what happens to /root permissions along the way 2) create a long groupname as slink and see if we can add a new user to it as potato Anybody care to add an item? On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Krzysztof Adamski wrote: > No nis, no nis+, no nfs. Simple standolone (on a network) box. > > K > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > Is this potato system hooked to any nis or nis+ domains, or is nfs used? > > I think if any of those three are "yes", then group names are limited to > > 16 characters. > > > > I think I remember reading this in the Sun documentation about two weeks > > ago. Please someone correct me if I am wrong. :) > > > > * Krzysztof Adamski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000228 10:28]: > > > There is a difference between slink and potato, if you use usernames > > > longer then 16 chars then the addgroup part of adduser fails. On slink I > > > can have groups at least 31 chars (maybe longer) but only 16 on potato. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
