[SunHELP] Username max is 8 characters?

[Blurg]

AFAIK: Nope.
Or you have to do some hacking in /usr/include/limits.h and recompile the
kernel:

/user/include/limits.h:
#define  LOGNAME_MAX 8  /* max # of characters in a login name */


from the useradd manpage (about the passwd file):


 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.

Jurgen

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On 11 Jul 2002, Ben Ricker wrote:

> I noticed that I cannot make a username over 8 characters in Solaris 8.
> Is this configurable?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben Ricker
> Web Security System Administrator
> Wellinx.com
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