[svlug] SuSE root prob

[Jeff Rose]

Javilk wrote:
> 
>      I installed SuSE on one of my systems.
> 
>      It does not accept the account "webmaster", as being one letter too
> long.  Webmaster is a popular account name, one that spammers, at least
> general spammers, tend to avoid.  (Webmasters get page promotion spam
> instead...)
> 
>      Since I am subscribed to a bunch of web related mailing lists as
> webmaster, and since the other machine has a webmaster ID with a home
> directory I expect to NFS mount, etc. etc., this is intolerable!
> 
>      What is the way around this problem.  Unsubscribing from the mailing
> lists and changing the e-mail address of hundreds of web pages to some
> other address is just not a viable solution!

Hmmm... I've not had this problem with my SuSE 5.3 install on
3 boxes. Try seeing if 'PASS_MAX_LEN 8' in /etc/login.defs
is relative at all? Otherwise, can you change webmaste to
webmaster with 'usermod'?

Just some thoughts,

Jeff

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