Long User names

[David Bannon]

At 05:21 PM 22/02/2000 +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>more than likely.  find a unix os that does >8 chars on unix names.
>

No, it does not matter about the underlying unix, The NTDom coders (thanks
Luke) did a good a job. smbpasswd is quite happy with long names and as an
aside, pam_smb is too. These particular users don't get to logon with a
shell. I create the user's entry in /etc/passwd with a script, not via
adduser and there seems to be no problems with most of the samba activity.

Everything works except the automatic connection to z: which can be done
with 'net use z: \\server\homes' (which was once a security problem ??).

The real point in issue here is that NT allows user names longer than 8
char, linux (at least) seems happy about it apart from some minor quibbles
as long as all access is through samba. If we are going to work in an NT
enviorment then names longer than 8 char are going to be encounted.



>On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, David Bannon wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> Who knows about length of user name limits ? I have been using an old
>> (Oct99) NTDom stream version in a production situation (NT4sp4) and have
>> just found that our IT department is making student logon names as long as
>> 15 characters. 
>> 
>> The NTDom side of things is fine, the user is logged on without problems
>> but no home directory. The user can browse to homes but not the (homes)
>> directory in their name.
>> 
>> Will I see similar problems in Head/TNG or TNG alone ? (if so, maybe I just
>> hack at the old code I have here ...). 
>> 
>> David
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>> David Bannon                      D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
>> School of Biochemistry            Phone 61 03 9479 2197
>> La Trobe University, Plenty Rd,   Fax   61 03 9479 2467
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David Bannon                      D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
School of Biochemistry            Phone 61 03 9479 2197
La Trobe University, Plenty Rd,   Fax   61 03 9479 2467
Bundoora, Vic, Australia, 3083    http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au
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..... Humpty Dumpty was pushed !