From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 18:44:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA15830 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailserver.newtrend.com (mailserver.newtrend.com [206.216.135.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA15822 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:44:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.newtrend.com (orion.newtrend.com [206.216.135.153]) by mailserver.newtrend.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA03618 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:43:10 -0800 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:43:10 -0800 Message-Id: <199604040243.SAA03618@mailserver.newtrend.com> X-Sender: freebsd@mailserver.newtrend.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: freebsd@newtrend.com (FreeBSD) Subject: Long login name question Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, can someone tell me whether there is a way to use long login name ( longer than 8 characters ) since the adduser will take a login name of up to 8 characters long. I have tried using something like "adduser -batch webmaster users 'Web Master' password" and got a cannot chown message during execution. But the adduser program added a entry in /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/master.passwd correctly. The default home directory /home/webmaster also created correctly but with owner root. When tried to chown owner of /home/webmaster to webmaster I got the same cannot chown message or some other invalid user name message. Thanks.