useradd in format of firstname.lastname

[derek b smith_1]

Does HPUX 11.0, 11.11 and 11.23 allow users to be added in the format of first.last?
If not is there another way to make this happen?


$ useradd joe.smith

[BW Moll]

Use SAM and you can add user names in any format you wish.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Derek:

If you mean:

# useradd -u 3000 -c "First.Last" someuser

However, you cannot create a login name like "some.user". The login name must begin with an alpha character and may only contain alphanumeric and underscore characters.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Paul Sperry]

I believe they are all still limited to 8 characters.

see this post

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=110703

[derek b smith_1]

no I mean
$useradd firstname.lastname
but through sam it did not work on 11.11.
However I did this to get around it.

$useradd test
$vi /etc/passwd
changed line from test to test.tes.
login did work however cant get around 8 char limit.

thank you!
derek

[derek b smith_1]

no I mean
$useradd firstname.lastname
but through sam it did not work on 11.11.
However I did this to get around it.

$useradd test
$vi /etc/passwd
changed line from test to test.tes
login did work however cant get around 8 char limit.

thank you!
derek

[OldSchool]

from "man useradd"

"The useradd command may be used with the login argument, where login is the new login name, specified as a string of printable characters. It may not contain a colon (:) or a newline (\n)."

the problem isn't the ".", that works fine. (I've a bunch of users with x.y logins). the issue is that sam and useradd limit the login id to 8 characters...which is the standard

[Duncan Edmonstone]

Actually in 11.23 and 11.31 you can go beyond 8 characters for your user names. See the lugadmin command (example here for 11.23):

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

Pay careful attention to the warnings section - not all applications or commands will work as expected with long user names, so make sure to do plenty of testing...

HTH

Duncan