From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 20:17: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (h139-142-245-96.ss.fiberone.net [139.142.245.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BDDE37B5FC for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:17:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA10157; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:16:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:16:48 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: Danny , Doug Barton , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long User name problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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