Hello, I have a simple question. Currently on my sunblade 100 running Solaris 8 my users are limited to 8 character login names. However in the /etc/passwd file I have users who have 8+ characters login names. When my user with these long user names attempt to log in with either ssh or ftp they are unable to. Anyone have any ideas as to how I can let my users login with their full 8+ character names? Thank in advance for any help, jrunix

Unix login names are limited to 8 characters maximum. Perhaps (particularily with ssh) the ssh program will not allow a variable with a size greater than the declared length to be read in. This will avoid a buffer overflow. Your users with login names greater than 8 characters will become an issue if you have a user named abcdefgh and a user named abcdefghi. User abcdefghi will not be able to log in because the passwd authentication will only read in the first 8 characters in the passwd file and the password won't match. If you assign the same password to both users, user abcdefghi will end up in the home directory of user abcdefgh. Since the mkuser command will normally not allow a user name greater than 8 characters, it is possible that someone has manually edited the names to make them longer.