How to exceed userid more then 8 character.

[titu]

Hi all,

I want to exceed userid more then 8 character in hpux 11.23 any way?

Thanks in advance.

Titu

[Jeeshan]

Hi

By default HP-UX except 8 character password.

If you wanna exceed more than 8, you need to convert your system in trusted mode.

[Jeeshan]

Hi

By default HP-UX accept 8 character password.

If you wanna exceed more than 8, you need to convert your system in trusted mode.

[Jeeshan]

Hi sorry for my early reply.

More than 8 **NOT RECOMMENDED**

Though you can increase the login name by manually changing /etc/passwd file and use some programs successfully, but it is not recommended as most of the programs would start misbehaving.

[titu]

Thanks for reply ashan ,

Could you tell me those programs or patches through which i can exceed userid more then 8 character ?

i have information about 11.11 in which you can istall some patch and can exceed user id more then 8 , do you have any information on 11.23 ?

thanks in advance

titu

[Torsten.]

see

http://docs.hp.com/en/B3921-60631/lugadmin.1M.html

[titu]

Thanks torsten and ashan for reply it helped.

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

Please read this too:

http://forums12.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

[Jeeshan]

8 chars is the Unix standard. Just like trying to change the maximum size of the hostname for uname, making it longer will either fail or as mentioned, be ignored, or worse, cause strange problems.