Re: Solaris 8 username contingency

From: Michael Steeves (msteeves@panix.com)
Date: 07/25/02 

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:10:28 -0400
From: Michael Steeves <msteeves@panix.com>
To: Casper Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM>

* Casper Dik (Casper.Dik@Sun.COM) [020725 09:35]:
> >The passwd utility, at least, breaks on Solaris 8. Not sure about 9,
> >as I haven't had a chance to install it anywhere yet.
>
> Ah, "getlogin(3)" fails.
>
> "passwd test_user" probably does work.

Most likely -- I know that when (as root) I set the password on the
account, it worked without complaint. Once I logged in as that user
directly (which is why I did the telnet localhost), running passwd and
letting that figure it out by itself, it bombed.

I had this problem under Solaris 7 (well, a user did, when another
admin created a 9-character login for a user), but just now tested it
under 8. 

-- 
Michael Steeves (msteeves@panix.com)
"Well, that's an idea all right. Not a good one, but it's an idea."
	-- Tom Servo

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