From: Robert Miller (rmiller@SMUD.ORG)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 14:15:54 EST
Way Back When, I believe that usernames *used* to be limited to 7
characters. I had thought that this limitation had been removed, but
perhaps it hasn't...
Perhaps it's a limitation of the mkuser command/script... not sure of the
ramifications of just slapping a new userid into /etc/passwd and
/etc/security/passwd are, if any, but that *might* overcome that
limitation... I always get nervous when dealing with system-level stuff with
AIX, never quite sure where they might have a hook (or 2) back into the ODM
or Something Weird like that...
--rm
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
justin.bleistein@SUNGARD.COM
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 11:10 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: user name problem in aix
I don't believe I ever came across this before:
# mkuser tsmadmins
3004-694 Error adding "tsmadmins" : Name is too long.
Where is the setting kept to control how long your usernames can be?. I
find this problem in AIX 4 and 5?????. Is this a Unix standard or can this
be modified by a header file or something?
--Justin Richard Bleistein
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