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Subject: Re: Adding user / length of usernames...
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Hi,

	This is not very elegant but it seems to work.

bash-2.03# adduser -s -q <<!
> testuser
> Test User
> sh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> passwird
> passwird
> 
> 
> 
> 
> n
> !

	Run it interactively and record all the steps. An empty line
is like hitting the return key and accepting the default.

Regards
Willem Brown

Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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