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Old 10-28-2010
Problem with useradd, -p option in Solaris 10
Good day all.

I'm trying to add a user with useradd and the -p option to assign a project name, but the result is that the user is created with an error message: "UX: useradd: user.root name should be all lower case or numeric."

The command:
Code:
useradd -d /export/home/tester -g rtpgrp -G other,dba -m -s /bin/ksh -p user.root tester
UX: useradd: user.root name should be all lower case or numeric.
64 blocks

This project name does exist and IS lower-case:
Code:
# projects
user.root default

Any ideas?

Regards,
Bjoern
# 2  
Old 10-28-2010
It will let you create invalid projects, it seems, but the error is clear enough: "name should be all lower case or numeric" and . is neither. I wonder if it will let you get away with an underscore.
# 3  
Old 10-28-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
It will let you create invalid projects, it seems, but the error is clear enough: "name should be all lower case or numeric" and . is neither. I wonder if it will let you get away with an underscore.
Thanks for the reply, Corona. It doesn't take an underscore either.

Bjoern

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
It will let you create invalid projects, it seems, but the error is clear enough: "name should be all lower case or numeric" and . is neither. I wonder if it will let you get away with an underscore.
Furthermore, underscore and '.' are in fact allowed:

Quote:
Solaris 10 - projadd

project The name of the project to create. The project operand
is a string consisting of characters from the set of
alphabetic characters, numeric characters, underline (_),
and hyphen (-). The period ('.') is reserved for projects
with special meaning to the operating system. The first
character of the project name must be a letter. An error
message is displayed if these restrictions are not met.
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