Username longer than 8 characters?

[tangodave]

Can you create a username longer than 8 characters that can be used to login with? My Applications department wants a username with 9 characters. I have already told them that it will not work, and it is not supported. HP support has confirmed that.

But, I am wondering if anyone as actually made it work?

Obviously, SAM will not allow you to create one with more than 8 characters. The useradd command will not support it, and returns an error.

I can change the name in the /etc/passwd file, and when I look that file ownership the name changes appropriately.

Once it is manully changed in the passwd file, it will still not work when you try to telnet or rlogin. Login will not even return a password prompt for you. It immediately reports that the login is invalid.

Thanks in advance for any replies.
Dave

 

[cfsalmeida]

I understand that HP-UX 11.00 can have usernames longer than 8 characters but other issues, such as NIS, FTP, etc..., still are at the 8 character limit. So even though you could logon to a system with >8 characters, other services do not like it too well. I haven't found anything about a workaround for 10.20

Regards,

Carlos Almeida,