Clark wrote:
> Our company has been tasked with moving to usernames that are all numbers
> (i.e.12345678). When we test this we find that the user can login just fine
> and automount their directory from the NFS server. However, such an account
> cannot write to that directory from the NFS client. (Permission denied)
>
> Has anyone experienced this? Any ideas what the cause may be?
>
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Take a snoop trace and see what UID/GID is being sent across the wire.
Does the UID match the username? If not, try a case where they do.
Just a wild guess where the UID <-> username mapping is getting hosed
because the username is all numeric.
Also, read passwd(4):
where
username is the user's login name.
The login (login) and role (role) fields
accept a string of no more than eight bytes
consisting of characters from the set of
alphabetic characters, numeric characters,
period (.), underscore (_), and hyphen (-).
The first character should be alphabetic and
the field should contain at least one lower
case alphabetic character. A warning message
is displayed if these restrictions are not
met.
