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Operating Systems AIX Username with more than 8 Characters Post 302174182 by damn-86 on Monday 10th of March 2008 09:43:18 AM
Old 03-10-2008
Username with more than 8 Characters

Hey,

i'm using AIX 5.3 which authenticates against a Microsoft Active Directory.
Everything works fine but like everytime there's a problem.

I created users with usernames with more than 8 characters.

Now i tried do login on AIX with these users, which didn't work. The login-window prohibits the entry of more than 8 characters. Trying to login by shell succeeds.
Same behaviour using the ls-command. Only 8 characters are displayed. In my opinion the backround works allright because... (see exmaple)

Example:
users: testuser & testuser2
--> chown testuser2 folder
--> ls -altr shows: drwxrwxrwx testuser ....
Trying to open the folder as testuser collapses.
Trying to open folder as testuser2 succeeds.


Most important is the problem with the login-window. how can i permit typing more than 8 characters??

Thx
 

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dsconfigad(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					     dsconfigad(8)

NAME
dsconfigad -- retrieves/changes configuration for Active Directory. SYNOPSIS
dsconfigad -help dsconfigad -show [-xml] dsconfigad -add fqdn -username username [-password password] [-computer computerid] [-ou dn] [-preferred server] [-force] [-localuser username] [-localpassword password] [-packetencrypt allow | disable | require | ssl] dsconfigad -leave [-localuser username] [-localpassword password] dsconfigad -remove -username username [-password password] [-localuser username] [-localpassword password] dsconfigad [-localuser username] [-localpassword password] [-alldomains enable | disable] [-enableSSO] [-localhome enable | disable] [-gid attribute | -nogid] [-ggid attribute | -noggid] [-groups "group1,group2,..." | -nogroups] [-mobile enable | disable] [-mobileconfirm enable | disable] [-namespace forest | domain] [-packetencrypt allow | disable | require | ssl] [-packetsign allow | disable | require] [-passinterval value] [-preferred server | -nopreferred] [-protocol afp | smb | nfs] [-restrictDDNS interface,interface,...] [-sharepoint enable | disable] [-shell value] [-uid attribute | -nouid] [-useuncpath enable | disable] DESCRIPTION
This tool allows command-line configuration of the Active Directory. dsconfigad has the same functionality for configuring the Active Direc- tory as the Directory Utility application. It requires "admin" privileges to the local workstation and to the Directory to make changes. A list of flags and their descriptions: -add fqdn The fully-qualified DNS name of the Domain to be used when adding the computer to the Directory (e.g., domain.ads.example.com). -alldomains enable | disable This flag determines whether the plugin allows authentication from any domain in the forest. When this is enabled, individual domains will not be visible, only "All Domains". If it is disabled, you will have the ability to select the specific domains that can authenticate to this computer. Enabled by default. -computer computerid The "computerid" to add the specified Domain -enableSSO (Server Only) When using MacOS X Server with Active Directory, this enables SSO for all supported services. -force Force the process (i.e., join the existing account or remove the binding) -ggid attribute This specifies the attribute to be used for the GID of the group. By default, a group GID is generated from the Active Directory GUID of the group. -gid attribute This specifies the attribute to be used for the GID of the user. By default, a GID is derived from the primaryGroupID of the user (typically Domain Users). -groups group1,group2,... Use the listed groups to determine who has local administrative privileges on this computer. Groups can be specified by domain to ensure security is not compromised, e.g., "domain admins@domain.ads.demo.com" -help Lists the options for calling dsconfigad -leave Leaves the current domain (preserving the computer record in the directory). -localhome enable | disable This flag determines whether the plugin forces all home directories to be local to the computer (i.e., /Users/username) (enabled by default). -localpassword password Password to use in conjunction with the specified local username. If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry. Note that using this option has a security risk due to a small window where the password could be captured from running process list. Consider using the prompting mechanism to ensure passwords are not exposed unexpectedly. -localuser username Username of a local account that has administrative privileges to this computer -mobile enable | disable This flag determines whether the plugin will enable mobile account support for offline logon (disabled by default). This flag is a hint. If the appopriate Workgroup Management settings exist for a user, this will not override, as directory settings for the user take precendence. -mobileconfirm enable | disable This flag determines whether the plugin will warn the user when a mobile account is going to be created. This flag is a hint as discussed in -mobile -namespace forest | domain Sets the primary account username naming convention. By default it is set to "domain" naming which assumes no conflicting user accounts across all domains. If your Active Directory forest has conflicts setting this to "forest" will prefix all usernames with "DOMAIN" to ensure unique naming between domains (e.g., "ADDOMAINuser1"). Warning: this will change the primary name of the user for all logins. Changing this setting on an existing system will cause any existing homes to be unused on the local machine. -noggid Turn off any previously mapped attribute and generate the group GID from the Active Directory GUID. -nogid Turn off any previously mapped attribute and use the GID from the directory. -nogroups Disable use of the current groups for determining administrative privileges on this computer. -nopreferred Turn off any previously specified server and default to dynamic server discovery. -nouid Turn off any previously mapped attribute and generate the UID from the Active Directory GUID. -ou dn The LDAP DN of the container to use for adding the computer. If this is not specified, it will default to the container "CN=Computers" within the domain that was specified (e.g., "CN=Computers,DC=domain,DC=ads,DC=demo,DC=com" -packetencrypt allow | disable | require | ssl By default packet encryption is allowed but not required, but can be required or disabled (for example if debugging a problem). This ensures that the data to/from the server is encrypted and signed guaranteeing the content was not tampered with and cannot be seen by other computers on the network. -packetsign allow | disable | require By default packet signing is allowed but not required, but can be required or disabled (for example if debugging a problem). This ensures that the data to/from the server is not tampered with by another computer before received it is received. It Fl passinter- val Ar value Set how often the computer trust account password should be changed (default 14). -password password Password to use in conjunction with the specified username. If this is not specified, you will be prompted for entry. Note that using this option has a security risk due to a small window where the password could be captured from running process list. Con- sider using the prompting mechanism to ensure passwords are not exposed unexpectedly. -preferred server Use the specified server for all Directory lookups and authentications. If the server is no longer available, it will fail-over to other servers. -protocol afp | smb | nfs This flag determines how a home directory is mounted on the desktop. By default SMB is used, but AFP can be used for use with Mac OS X Server or 3rd Party AFP solutions on Windows Servers (previously known as mountstyle) -restrictDDNS Restricts Dynamic DNS updates to specific interfaces (e.g., en0, en1, en2, etc.). To disable restrictions pass "" as the list. -remove Remove this computer from the current Domain -sharepoint enable | disable Enable or disable mounting of the network home as a sharepoint. -shell value Use the specified shell (e.g., "/bin/bash") if a shell attribute does not exist in the directory for the user logging into this com- puter. Use a shell value of "none" to disable use of a default shell, preserving values that are only specified in the directory. -show Shows the current configuration of the Active Directory -uid attribute This specifies the attribute to be used for the UID of the user. By default, a UID is generated from the Active Directory GUID. -username username Username of a Network account that has administrative privileges to add/remove this computer to/from the specified Domain -useuncpath enable | disable This flag determines whether the plugin uses the UNC specified in the Active Directory when mounting the network home. If this is disabled, the plugin will look for Apple schema extensions to mount the home directory. -xml Output in XML rather than plain text. Valid only with -show. EXAMPLES
Adding a computer to a Directory: dsconfigad -add domain.ads.example.com -computer ThisComputer -username "administrator" -ou "CN=Computers,OU=Engineering,DC=ads,DC=example,DC=com" Giving a set of groups administrative access to the local computer: dsconfigad -groups "DOMAINdomain admins,FORESTenterprise admins,DOMAINdesktop techs" SEE ALSO
opendirectoryd(8), odutil(1) Darwin August 28 2010 Darwin
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