UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I work on some hp ux 11.00 Servers. i have to add an user. i use the useradd command like follows: useradd -u 72022 -g 71095 -c " comment " -d /PACKAGE_NAME/home/username -s /usr/bin/sh username

The command returns with error 3. The manpage means value number 3: Invalid argument supplied to an option.

So i dont understand what this means. The Username includes nine characters, maybe this is the failure?

thx for your indulgence.

According to the manpage on my sco openserver 5, the limit is 8 characters.

Why aren't you using SAM to add new users? -mk

i cant use sam, because sam like to create a home directory. these machine is a member of a five node cluster. so if i like to use sam, it won`t work. also is sco unix not familiar in this problem with the user name. i cant see any restrictions in the manpage... but sam also don`t allows to use more than 8 charachters for the user name, so i think this is the problem!

many thx!

There is a patch available for 11.x. It appears that this was disabled with 11.x versions.

See this link to the www.itrc.hp.com site.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/Questio...9cd0f9,00.html

BTW, for HPUX specific questions, they have a search engine database that is rather good.

useradd -u 72022 -g 71095 -c " comment " -d /PACKAGE_NAME/home/username -s /usr/bin/sh username

works fine in solaris!!.
raju

raju,

Yes it does too on 10.x OS in HPUX as well, but for 11.x unless you have a certain patch that allows greater that 8 chars for a username. Even though it is ignored, it can be done.