Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[Andreas Winkelmann <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 17 September 2007 14:56, Peter Nixon wrote:

> I have spent several days porting a system across from an old Debian server
> to a shiny new openSUSE 10.2 machine including moving thousands of user
> accounts and home dirs. I was just about to put the new system into
> production and found that our provisioning scripts fail to create new users
> with the following error:
>
> # useradd 00c002f8dfe9
> useradd: Invalid account name `00c002f8dfe9'.
>
> I dug a little deeper and found the following in the man page for SUSE's
> version of useradd:
>
> "The  account  name  must  begin  with  an alphabetic character and the
> rest of the string should be from the POSIX portable character class
> ([A-Za-z_] [A-Za-z0-9_-.]*[A-Za-z0-9_-.$])."
>
> Now, I am sure this is correct POSIX behaviour, but the fact is I have a
> working Debian system and a non working SUSE system with no chance to
> change the way our accounts are created. They ALL start with a number
> (because they are based on MAC addresses) and we have field deployed
> software using this system which would take months to update.
>
> How can I turn off this account name check on SUSE?

Maybe:

$ man 5 login.defs

/etc/login.defs

-- 
        Andreas
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