[PLUG] Solaris Annoyance

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Jan 30 17:44:40 UTC 2007


On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Michael Rasmussen wrote:

> testing something out this morning I:
>
>   sunorccws04 ~# groupadd -g 105 verylongname
>   UX: groupadd: verylongname name too long.
>
> What? That's braindead.  But just the same it's their prerogative to 
> limit the name length.  So then:
>
>   sunorccws04 ~# groupadd -g 105 vln
>   UX: groupadd: ERROR: 105 is already in use.  Choose another.
>   sunorccws04 ~# grep 105 /etc/group
>   verylongname::105:
>
> The name is too long but it was added anyway?  WT_?
> Annoying.

The eight-character "limit" in some versions of Solaris is imposed by 
the admin tool, not by the OS:

   http://www.sunmanagers.org/archives/1998/0157.html

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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> www.madboa.com



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