Username Length and Password Expiry

[mark clarkson]

Thanks Darren.  I know that useradd warns you but it does create the
ID on the system.

Mark.

On 3/1/06, Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> wrote:
> mark clarkson wrote:
> > I am having a problem with usernames that are longer than 8 characters
> > on the following system types:
> >
> > Solaris 8, Solaris 9
> > OpenSSH 4.2p1
> > OpenSSL 0.9.8a
> >
> > When logging in with an SSH client like PuTTY, OpenSSH or SecureCRT,
> > the username is truncated when the password is asked to be changed.
> [...]
> >     WARNING: Your password has expired.
> >     You must change your password now and login again!
> >     passwd: Changing password for bclarkso
> >     passwd: User unknown: bclarkso
> >     Permission denied
> >
> > Notice the "n" at the end of the user name is dropped.
>
> All it does in that case is run "passwd" with no arguments.  If you log
> on (via telnet or ssh) and just run "passwd", does that work?
>
> Solaris doesn't seem to support usernames longer than 8 chars:
> $ uname -sr
> SunOS 5.8
> $ sudo useradd abcdefghi
> UX: useradd: abcdefghi name too long.
>
> > This works just fine using telnet as can be seen in the output below:
> [...]
> > Does anyone know of any fixes for this or if it is a bug?
>
> You can try building with and enabling PAM (that's probably what telnet
> is using).
>
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