From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 1 8:22:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.root-servers.ch (alpha.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7952E37BAD1 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 08:22:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 17570 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2000 15:23:47 -0000 Received: from client99-59.hispeed.ch (62.2.99.59) by ns1.root-servers.ch with SMTP; 1 Jun 2000 15:23:47 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 17:22:43 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (1.42) Business Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <12821979544.20000601172243@buz.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Adding user / length of usernames... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've got some questions regarding adding users. If I try to start adduser, it shows up an interactive interface for adding users. This is nice for people who need it rarely or need to have different configs all the time. I, OTOH, need to have it scripted as we have to create almost identical accounts over and over (we use them as login for the FTPd as well as for quota reasons) again. man adduser shows switches but if I try to use # adduser -shell no -home /home/web/a/test2_com/web/ test2_com I end up with the interactive interface as well. What am I doing wrong? (Linux' useradd did this without any problems but that one hasn't got any interactive modes, AFAIK). And the second question: "You can change UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/include/utmp.h and recompile the world; people have done this and it works, but you will have problems with any precom- piled programs, or source that assumes the 8-character name limit and NIS." - adduser manpage We won't use NIS but ProFTPd [1] (which handles long names on Linux without any problems) so is it safe to do that? I'd like to have longer usernames so I can assign them pretty like the user's realname making it easy for them to remember it. I think it's a pain for them to remember and for us to figure out who's really the owner of something... [1] And NFS is going to be used as well as the standard utils such as chmod and chown. CU Gabriel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message