User login names > 8 chars on HPUX.100?

[hakan Güleç]

Hi all,
Is there any way to give login name > 8 chars on HPUx 11.00.
I find some replies about 10.20 on this forum.
Is there any side effect? Because I am using
HP box as smtp-pop3 .
Kind regards.
Hakan.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The man pages for 11.x are clear: the "Login name field can be no longer than 8 characters". See 'man 4 passwd'.

...JRF...

[Rainer von Bongartz]

you can put longer names in /etc/passwd, but only 8 chars are relevant for login.

[Rita C Workman]

As was mentioned anything > 8 in an untrusted system is unsupported and will ignore what is over 8 characters and may result in error. This applies to user names, group names and node names.

Now here is an interesting thread, where Steffi Jones showed that the error message can be handled in an 11 system (of course that doesn't change the issue of > than 8 characters !)
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x10920cb17a32d5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Rita

[T G Manikandan]

Hello,
1.Install the patches PHCO_13809 and PHCO_24390 on the server.Reboot your machine.
2.Now create a file "I_ACCEPT_RESPONSIBILITY_FOR_BYPASSING_SECURITY_CHECKS"
#touch I_ACCEPT_RESPONSIBILITY_FOR_BYPASSING_SECURITY_CHECKS
3.create the user by editing the /etc/passwd file.
Hope this helps.

Thanks.
GM

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

This sounds just a little bit grievious!

I_ACCEPT_RESPONSIBILITY_FOR_BYPASSING_SECURITY_CHECKS

why not just touch a file I_AM_OBVIOUSLY_JUST_GOING_TO_GET_MYSELF_INTO_UNSUPPORTED_TROUBLE_SOMEWHERE_DOWN_THE_LINE

!
Later,
Bill

[T G Manikandan]

Bill ah..ah..aa

The HP way.

[Wodisch]

Hello,

why is it so difficult to use the search facility of the ITRC?
It took only a minute to find the answer from JRF for
that question as it was posted on 13th July 2001 :-(

Look at
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0xd95a46ff9277d511abcd0090277a778c,00.html

Sorry, Bill - it is really that filename in "/etc/default/" :-)

HTH,
Wodisch