Dan McGhee wrote: > Chris Staub wrote: >> On 10/04/2009 08:25 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: >>> Hans Kaper wrote: >>>> That the problem arises after the installation of Shadow does not >>>> surprise >>>> me. After the installation groupadd from LFS-Shadow takes over from >>>> Shadow >>>> of your hostsystem. >>>> >>> Yes, I've done more research and discovered that there's no way >>> around it. >> >> A couple Shadow versions ago, there was a patch I think in the CLFS >> book to fix a few issues - one was to alter useradd and groupadd to >> reduce the restrictions on user and group names - I've attached the >> patch here. As I said, this was a couple versions ago so most of the >> issues in the patch have already been fixed in the latest Shadow >> version, but the restrictions on user and group names are still >> there, so the first bit of that patch can still be applied if you want. >> >> It's not really a problem for me since I just use the package name in >> all lower case (yeah, I use package users too) - my only issue has >> been the maximum length of user/group names, though in recent Shadow >> versions that can be changed with a configure switch - I add >> --without-group-name-max-length to Shadow's configure command. > Thanks, Chris. I made and tested a patch for the current version of > shadow. It's attached, if anyone wants to use it. > > Dan I forgot to give Jim Gifford credit for the original patch in the one I just submitted. I'm very sorry.
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