Hi:-)
alexm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a user with 13 char in user name including a "-".
> Works fine. You can not login if you specify only 8 characters of his uid.
>
Yes, and I have a user with 9 characters in her name. The only problem that I
ran into as far as that goes was in creating the login script. Using the linux
editors (vi and/or the built in editor for midnight commander), The login script
created wouldn't work because apparently the linux editor does not create the
newlines that "dos batch files do using chr$(13), instead, the edited script
shows up in win95/dos as one single line which cannot be executed. Then when
you go in with a dos editor and break up the line into separate lines, well,
then the dos editor shortens the filename to the old 8/3 format. But by going
back into linux and renaming the script file back to the 9.3 name in accordance
with the samba specs, well, then when they log into the win95 machine, it finds
the script and it runs ok (win95 can read long filenames, just can't save em
unless it is on a win95 partition).
I'm not real sure how userad works because generally when I do user maintenance
I do it via yast:-) And it does accept user names longer than 8 characters:-)
> On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, lunaslide wrote:
>
> >
> > At 10:46 AM 1/7/99 +0200, you wrote:
> > >I have an Suse Linux (5.2 with some patches and kernel updates). I want
> > >to have users names longer than 8 characters, but the useradd program
> > >does not allow longer names.
--
cya l8r
Leon McClatchey
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