Username longer than 8 characters

[R.Rousseau]

I am working on a migration of an application that runs over HP-UX 11.11. This application needs users/groups longer than 8 characters (to be honest it can be changed, but it requires loads of changes!!), let's say 10-12. The only way I could find to create such users, is editing the /etc/passwd (or /etc/group). The fact is that I do not know if this can have some impact with other functionalities of HP-UX. For example I could notice that if I use such a user/group as owner of a file, than with the 'ls -la' I can see up to the 8th character for the user/group. On the other hand someone told me about a patch that would alllow user/group longer than 8. What's the best thing to do? Which this patch?

Thank you to all
Fabio

[Pete Randall]

Claude,

Check:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x10920cb17a32d5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

HTH,
Pete

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

Ramesh has the document inside the link for your problem

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x70b8cf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html