Odd limit on group name length in Yast GUI

19 Jan 2004

      All,

I'm making the transition from Red Hat 9.0 to Suse Professional 9.0 on a
file server and have run into a rather odd snag. I have several group names
like "documents", "marketing" and "commercial" that Suse's GUI tool does not
accept as valid. I've been using the same group names for several years in
various OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Debian and RedHat systems. To solve the problem, I
simply merged my old passwd, shadow, group, and gshadow files and the
authentication structure is seemingly working well. So have I just broken
the authentication subsystem in Suse or did I find a Yast bug?

TIA,

Sam Stern
Baltimore, MD, USA