[PLUG] Solaris Annoyance

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Jan 30 18:53:35 UTC 2007


On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Wil Cooley wrote:

> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:45 -0800, 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:
>
> If you think that's braindead, try adding yourself to another group
> while logged in using 'usermod':
>
> # usermod -G other,httpd cooleyw
> UX: usermod: ERROR: cooleyw is in use.  Cannot change it.

On Solaris 10, things seem more sane:

# usermod -G staff heinlein
UX: usermod: heinlein is currently logged in, some changes may not 
take effect until next login.

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