Re: Limiting user profiles to 8 characters

I tried something today on my 7.5 server.
CRTUSRPRF USRPRF(TENLONGUSR)

from a putty terminal:

ssh tenlongusr@MyHost
tenlongusr@MyHost's password:
Could not chdir to home directory /home/TENLONGUSR: No such file or
directory
-bash-5.1$ ps -f
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
tenlongu 3651 3649 0 09:04:37 pts/0 0:00 -bash
tenlongu 3652 3651 0 09:04:44 pts/0 0:00 ps -f


oops, it gets cut off at 8 characters. going to see what is said in a PMR
we use 10 long userID all over the environemnt

Bryan


On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 7:12 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Apparently the length of the userid can be changed in AIX:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/960582?mhsrc=ibmsearch_a&mhq=960582

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/aix/7.2?topic=ugnll-changing-user-group-name-length-limit-in-odm-database

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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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