Re: [cobalt-developers] user / mail account names character limit ations

[Harald Kapper <hk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
suggestion: create "dummy users" using <13 chars usernames via the
webinterface. then manually do the following:

telnet into raq,
su -
edit /etc/passwd, /etc/group & /etc/shadow to correct the usernames
to your intended variant, that's it.

actually did this for some users of us, worked for us, no guarantee
for anyone else, comments always welcome.

hk

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 08:54:35 -0900, Greg Dutton <gdutton@xxxxxxx> wrote to "'cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>Tom,
>
>I am having the same problem.  It appears to be a Cobalt limitation.  I can
>create standard Linux user accounts through my shell account that are longer
>than 12 characters.  So, my guess is it is a Cobalt limitation.
>
>-Greg
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Hanberg [mailto:tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 5:25 PM
>To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [cobalt-developers] user / mail account names character
>limitations
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I am having trouble creating some user/mail accounts of my Raq4r.
>
>The GUI will not allow me to enter a mail username more than 12 
>characters.  I know that I can enter a different name as the username, and 
>set up the "alias" as a longer name, but the client I am transferring to 
>the Raq has dozens of POP accounts on another server, and I don't want to 
>tell them they have to change all their mail set-up options for each 
>account to delete characters of their POP login name.
>
>Is this just a limitation of the Cobalt GUI? I have a FreeBSD box that has 
>13 and 14 character mail login accounts, so I think it should be able to be 
>done!
>
>Can I go in with Telnet and create these accounts instead of using the GUI?
>
>I really don't want to have my non technical client have to edit their mail 
>settings on all these accounts since they are all on different machines run 
>by different people nationwide. Since the POP and SMTP servers are their 
>domain names, nothing would have to change if I could just get their 
>usernames the same as they are now, without this 12 character limitation.
>
>If anyone has any help, I'd appreciate it.
>
>
>Tom Hanberg
>I-Net Group, Inc.
>Skyhound Internet
>Long Beach, CA 
>
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