Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 18:43:10 -0800 From: freebsd@newtrend.com (FreeBSD) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Long login name question Message-ID: <199604040243.SAA03618@mailserver.newtrend.com>
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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.
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