topic Re: Creating user. in Operating System - HP-UX

Creating user.

Vikas Dokhe — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:00:00 GMT

Hi!

Can we create username in unix more than eight character?

Re: Creating user.

Paul_481 — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:05:00 GMT

Hi Vikas,

Yes you can create username with more than 8 characters, however only the first 8 is significant.

Regards,
Paul

Re: Creating user.

Vikas Dokhe — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:08:55 GMT

Hi Paul,

But sam will not accept more than eight charcter.

Re: Creating user.

Peter Nikitka — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:36:11 GMT

Hi,

try 'vipw' - it will check for entry 'errors' as well, but not so hard as SAM.

mfG Peter

Re: Creating user.

Fabio Ettore — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:39:09 GMT

Hi Vikas,

that is a security problem. Set usernames with more than 8 characters bypass any PAM security checks.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=67473

Anyway there are patches to use usernames with more than 8 characters. For HP-UX 11.00 is PHCO_21833, for 11.11 there isn't specific patch, you should search for the libpam patch.

Hope this helps you.

Best regards,
Fabio

Re: Creating user.

Marc Ahrendt — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:49:11 GMT

here is what i had seen on my 11.11 v1 OS

passwd reportgui
Invalid login name.
vipw
reportgui:evPYkwbGgmnLM:...
Logname too long/short

so just made it < 8 characters

Re: Creating user.

Vikas Dokhe — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:56:16 GMT

Hi Marc,

We can create thr. vipw but can't login.

reg,
Vikas

Re: Creating user.

Vikas Dokhe — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 04:58:43 GMT

Hi!

Thanks a lot of all of you for timely help i will follow the Fabio procedure.

Regards,
Vikas