[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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