Re: Limiting user profiles to 8 characters -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Limiting user profiles to 8 characters
From: Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 21:16:47 +0200
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Hello Rob,

Am 28.09.2022 um 16:24 schrieb Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>:

unix: Some of the discussion boards noted that grep and stuff would show the first 7 characters and the 8th character would be a plus sign

Let me try this on an aix lpar...
# oslevel
7.2.0.0
# mkuser rob456789
3004-694 Error adding "rob456789" : Name is too long.
Dropping the 9 worked.

Wow! I suggest that the A in AIX is for "ancient". ;-)

... and I learned how to create and delete a user in AIX today!

Yay!

:wq! PoC

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