Re: Solaris 8 username contingency

From: Rich Teer (richard.teer@rite-group.com)
Date: 07/26/02 

Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:33:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Teer <richard.teer@rite-group.com>
To: Michael Steeves <msteeves@panix.com>

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Michael Steeves wrote:

> 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.

I think the bottom line here is: don't use usernames that exceed
8 characters - as specified in the useradd man page. 

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Rich Teer

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