Userid length on HP-UX

[Andy Cooper_1]

Sorry to be a complete wuss, but I'm an HP novice. Can anyone tell me if the maximum userid length on Version 11 is 8 characters?

Andy Cooper

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi,
I suppose a general consensus here would be to stick to a maximum of 8 char for compatibility purpose between open systems...

All the best

Victor

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi Andy,

Victor is right. Although it's not written anywhere, the general consensus is to limit to 8 chars for compatibility reasons.

Cheers,

Dan

[Rainer_1]

found some information in /usr/include/limits.h

/*
* The size of the storage required for a login name, in bytes,
* including the terminating null.
*/
# define _POSIX_LOGIN_NAME_MAX 9

/*
* Maximum Length of a login name.
*/
# define LOGIN_NAME_MAX 64

So general 8 chars is the maximum but HP-UX will recognize up to 63 chars.

[James R. Ferguson]

Andy:

The user login name's length is limited to 8-bytes. Look at /usr/include/utmp.h or the man pages for 'utmp (4)'.

...JRF...

[CHRIS ANORUO]

To add to Victor's contribution, SAM limits the number of characters to 8 which also conforms to general unix logname specifications and restrictions.
Check the online manual on passwd. (man 4 passwd)

[Motorola GTSS-West]

Ok, so i now use ldap as my login authentication system. I have a login that is 10 characters long. I can login to the machine (thank you pam_ldap...) but when my shell comes up, my login is truncated to 8 chars. when i try to rlogin to somewhere else from there, it uses the short userid (which doesnt exist)... Sigh... Oh and just for fodder, the Solaris and Linux boxes dont have this trouble....

-darryl

[Dave Johnson_1]

I just got this from "man 4 passwd":
The following fields have size limitations as noted:
+ Login name field can be no longer than 8 characters;

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

8 characters is the limit. 11.31 and 11.23 permit longer, but that introduces issues you would rather not deal with, including interoperability issues with 11.11 systems and other Unix systems.

Best to live within the 8 character limit.

SEP