From: Bill Thompson (bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 12:47:12 EDT
Actually Simon is correct - the eight character limit was a standard across all Unix platforms for years. You can specify more but the
system only recognizes eight. You may have longer names on your Solaris box but according to the useradd man page from a Solaris 8
system:
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 will
be written if these restrictions are not met. A future
Solaris release may refuse to accept login and role fields
that do not meet these requirements.
Bill Thompson
Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon D. Benson" <jbenson@NEUROME.COM>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.aix-l
To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie question about user name length
> It is not a general UNIX restriction -- I have longer names on my
> Solaris and my Linux systems. AIX seems to be unique. Maybe it is a
> legacy IBM thing? I would love to find a work around myself.
> --
> Jon D. Benson
> Network Systems Administrator
> Neurome, Inc.
>
>
> Green, Simon wrote:
>
> > Yes.
> >
> > You can end up with longer names in the configuration files if someone edits
> > them directly - I've seen this where people have edited /etc/passwd to make
> > a place-holder entry. However, this won't be useable and will cause errors
> > with various other commands.
> >
> > I think that this is a general UNIX restriction.
> > --
> > Simon Green
> > Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
> >
> > AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html
> >
> > New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX
> >
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> > Please post all follow-ups to the list.
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: AUBINEAU Cyril [mailto:caubineau@SIGMA.FR]
> >>Sent: 16 April 2004 09:48
> >>To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> >>Subject: Newbie question about user name length
> >>
> >>
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Limited to 8 chars for a login name for aix 4.3.3 ?
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