2007. 09. 17, hétfő keltezéssel 15.56-kor Peter Nixon ezt írta:
Hi Guys
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?
TIA
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Peter Nixon http://peternixon.net/
Hi! If you use on the new openSUSE server local authentication, you can copy the old /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files from the Debian system and you are ready in a simple way. It's just an idea. You have to change the UID and GID values and rsync the home data. Bye, Amerigo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org