logins > 8 characters

[Bruce Troutman]

I understand that you can have a login longer than 8 characters on 11.0 as long as you have a patch. Is anyone aware of any problems or instances in which these logins will cause problems.

Thanks

[ASO CENTRAL]

despite the patch you are unable to use SAM or useradd to create a login > 8 characters. You must modify the /etc/passwd file directly after a legitamate login has been corrected.
Don't forget to create the I_ACCEPT_RESPONSIBILITY_FOR_BYPASSING_SECURITY_CHECKS file in /etc/default.
pwck, who, last will all function differently.

Regards,
Big Pimpin

[Richard Darling · Accepted solution]

Bruce, This thread covers the subject thoroughly...
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x47a572234586d5118ff00090279cd0f9,00.html

[someone_4]

Hello,
I had this problem where a long login did have 1 problem that I did notice. When you telnet it would give you "unknown" instead of the hostname.
here is the link to my post.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x5e7a5220af9bd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html
As far as a patch I dont know.

Richard

[linuxfan]

Hi Bruce,

The patch was supposed to be PHCO_22265
but this is no longer available in the patch database.

However you can get by without the patch,
cd /etc/default
touch I_ACCEPT_RESPONSIBILITY_FOR_BYPASSING_SECURITY_CHECKS

and then go ahead and create the user.
I would avoid doing this unless ofcourse there is an absolute necessity to do this.

-HTH
Ramesh