Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:16:48 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> Cc: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long User name problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102215320.9685-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102159270.9685-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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Ryan Thompson wrote to Shawn Ramsey: > Shawn Ramsey wrote to Danny and Doug Barton: > > > At 01:13 PM 3/12/2000 +1100, Danny wrote: > > >HEllo, > > > > > >I thought From FreeBSD 3.3 onwards it supported 16 characters in the username. > > >I am wondering if you can show me the username you are having problems adding? > > > > Yeah, well, thats the problem. :) We have other systems that work just fine > > with long user names. One particular system does not. What exactly do you > > want me to show you? > > > Please fix any line breaks or obvious errors: > > echo 'bobbyjoelongname::62424:62424::0:0:Bigass \ > Username:/nonexistent:/bin/csh' >> /etc/master.passwd > pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd > su bobbyjoelongname > whoami > who > w > exit > last | head -1 > Here I go again. Please don't use 'su' :-). Log in as that user instead. The above worked fine for me on 3.4-STABLE and 3.2-RELEASE. -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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