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adding long user name

hello everybody:
I need to add a 10 character user name to my tru64 system, is there any work around I can use for that.

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hello everybody:
I need to add a 10 character user name to my tru64 system, is there any work around I can use for that.

thanks alot

I do not have a tru64 system so I could not test this for you but it looks like you can change the max length of the usernames.

Have a look at the sysconfigtab file in /etc/sysconfigtab you should be able to alter the login_name_max parameter. This should enable you to use long usernames.

you might want to do some reading on the internet about possible restrictions etc etc.

Please do post the results of your search and testing here.

Regards,
Johan Louwers.

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