Hello all,
Original post at end:
Sorry to all those who responded who said it couldn't be done.
BIG THANKS to BRIAN SCANLAN who came up with the winning work around:
Work around: specify the account name when running passwd, even when you're
running it as the user who's password you're changing!
Brian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Moccio [mailto:svm@lucent.com]
Sent: 21 December 2000 13:24
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Subject: UserID and Password Question.
Hello all,
We are using Solaris 2.5.1 on a Sun Enterprise 3000. All new accounts are
created using a script that creates a username and a password entry in the
passwd file. My question is - Does Sun still require the username to be 8
characters or less? I didn't think that was the case anymore. At any rate I
created and account with a username say account101 and generated a password
for it. I logged in with that account name without any problems. When I went
to change the password with the passwd I get the following error:
Passwd: Changing password for account10
Passwd: account10 does not exist.
Any ideas how to get around this?
TIA........
Steve Moccio
svm@lucent.com
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