add numeric username on HPUX

[Radouan Bouzite]

I am testing an HPUX rx4640 with HPUXv2, and I notice that there is a restriction to create usernames : "the login name must meet the following requirements :
* Must begin with an alphabetic character . "

IS there any to change this restriction ?

[Patrick Wallek]

Nope, no way to change it that I know of.

All user names MUST begin with an alphabetic character, AND, should all be lower case.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

There is no way to change this and if you did bypass the usual useradd routines and manually add this user, you would introduce a host of other problems. For example, you would break the chmod command because the test that is used to determine whether or not the argument supplied is a login name or a UID is to look at thge first character of ther argument. If it's a numeric character then the argument is assummed to be a UID.

[George Liu_4]

How does it behave if ldap is used?

[John Guster]

there will be a map mapping unix login ID and Window login ID.

jguster = "John Guster" something like that.

[Radouan Bouzite]

Hi Patrick,

you said that I can use only lower case also ?

[Radouan Bouzite]

This restriction will cause us a problem if we want ot migrate to HPUX (I am using TRU64) because I have more than 100 users with numeric username for our apllication need

Many thanks for all .