On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 14:53 -0400, Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
Hi, I have configured openldap on CentOS 4.3, all my users are in ldap. I also configure idx-smbtools for managing the users.
The test I'm doing is creating long usernames like this: this.is.avery.long.username
All is working fine: sendmail, dovecot, idx-smbldap-tools, ceti-poppassd, chown
My question is, I'm breaking some standards? Or breaking some posix specification by doing this? It is recomended to have this kind of usernames on Linux?
---- actually, I'm surprised that you didn't notice a burp when you used chown command as the Red Hat tools will use a dot as a separator.
i.e.
chown craig.dom_users /path/to/file chown craig:dom_users /path/to/file
are functionally the same thing but just because it doesn't toss an error the first time you chown this.is.a.very.long.username /somefile doesn't mean that it actually worked. If you did "chown this.is.a.very.long.username" /somefile it probably would work
I would suggest that you keep testing for adequacy.
Craig