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nickeh
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:12 pm Post subject: Disabling PAM? |
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Not sure if its actually pam that is causing my problems but it's my guess...
I would really like to be able to create users with what ever username i like.
If i keep my passwords secure i dont see a reason to use rubbish usernames that is hard to remember.
So where do i change this?? |
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SpoonMeiser
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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| Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: Disabling PAM? |
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| nickeh wrote: | | If i keep my passwords secure i dont see a reason to use rubbish usernames that is hard to remember. |
Do you mean usernames? Or passwords? I've never heard of there being any restrictions on usernames... |
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nickeh
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:07 am Post subject: Re: Disabling PAM? |
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| SpoonMeiser wrote: | | nickeh wrote: | | If i keep my passwords secure i dont see a reason to use rubbish usernames that is hard to remember. |
Do you mean usernames? Or passwords? I've never heard of there being any restrictions on usernames... |
Well my usernames have to be unique, there fore a username like nicke is not accepted... |
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j-m
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Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: Re: Disabling PAM? |
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| nickeh wrote: |
Well my usernames have to be unique, there fore a username like nicke is not accepted... |
This is some bad joke?! Of course usernames must be unique, you cannot have two different users with the same username...   |
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nickeh
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject: Re: Disabling PAM? |
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| j-m wrote: | | nickeh wrote: |
Well my usernames have to be unique, there fore a username like nicke is not accepted... |
This is some bad joke?! Of course usernames must be unique, you cannot have two different users with the same username... |
Nope, no joke just bad use of language.
Of course i can't have two users with same name. What i meant was that there seem to be som rule that stops me from using simple usernames like nicke or other easy to break usernames.
Not quite sure it's pam that is doing this or if its some other security rule that i've set wrong. |
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indynet
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Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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Location: Prague - Czech Republic
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| If you use useradd I'm close to certain there is no restiction. |
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Maedhros
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Location: Durham, UK
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My username is "jc", so I think it must be a restriction somewhere else...
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nickeh
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| Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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Seems like i found the problem..
When addin a user with useradd there seem to be a bit of a delay before it gets into the userlist.
Therefore when i try to run useradd then passwd directly after passwd complains about the user not existing.
So how long should one wait between useradd and passwd? How do i implement this in a bash script? |
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