User login problem-special char in the user id

[vas_3]

Hi all,

We have created one NIS account(user id: pt_submit).I m not able to login to HPUX box by using this account as it has special char(_) and more than 8 chars.getting the below error
*************
login: pt_submit
Login incorrect
login:
**********

How to slove this problem?.

FYI: i m able to telnet to linux machine with this account(pt_submit);
Regards,
Srinu.

[Dennis Handly]

What OS version are you using? You may want to try limiting it to 8 chars.

[Frank de Vries]

I did a test (not using NIS)
but just an non-interactive script, and to my
surprise it said: login incorrect.

so it appears login prompt thing with none-interactiveness
Or you rewrite the login executable to allow it.

Or ensure your account names are compliant with non-interactive behaviour.


function logon
{
sleep 3
print pt_submit
sleep 4
print password
sleep 3
print TTY=$(eval tty | awk -F "/dev/" {' print $2'})
print DISPLAY=$(who -u | grep $TTY | awk {' print $8 '}):0.0
print print $DISPLAY
print ps
print sleep 2
}

logon | telnet $1

...

[vas_3]

HI,
I m using 11.11i OS.
NO.. I want to use more than 8 chars.

Regards srinu.

[Frank de Vries]

Indeed I change my script

print pt_submit

with

print pt_submt

and that worked,

so it seems the 8 char is a limit

[Dennis Handly]

>I want to use more than 8 chars.

This isn't available unless you have support of long user and group names on 11.31.

[smatador]

Hi,
I'm afraid that is not possible on 11.11
see man 4 passwd.
If you were on 11.31, you could do it first to enable by lugadmin -e, but in this release it's not possible.

[smatador · Accepted solution]

See this doc just for 11.31 to understand
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/5992-4118/longusername_white_paper_updated.pdf