Re: [GENERAL] Numeric user names

2004-10-20 Thread Ed Stoner
I want to use bare numbers because that is how the users (students in this case) are identified on the network and in the student information system. They've been identified this way for over 20 years, so it would be near impossible to change at this point (although it is not always very

Re: [GENERAL] Numeric user names

2004-10-20 Thread Ed Stoner
Thanks. This worked. This is exactly what I was looking for. Stephan Szabo wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Ed Stoner wrote: I am unable to use the CREATE USER command with numeric user names (i.e. CREATE USER 35236 WITH PASSWORD '1234';). Is this a limitation or a problem somewhere with how I have

Re: [GENERAL] Numeric user names

2004-10-20 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 09:25 AM 10/19/2004 -0400, Ed Stoner wrote: I want to use bare numbers because that is how the users (students in this case) are identified on the network and in the student information system. They've been identified this way for over 20 years, so it would be near impossible to change at

Re: [GENERAL] Numeric user names

2004-10-19 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Ed Stoner wrote: I am unable to use the CREATE USER command with numeric user names (i.e. CREATE USER 35236 WITH PASSWORD '1234';). Is this a limitation or a problem somewhere with how I have things configured? Is there are workaround? I believe you can create a user

[GENERAL] Numeric user names

2004-10-18 Thread Ed Stoner
I am unable to use the CREATE USER command with numeric user names (i.e. CREATE USER 35236 WITH PASSWORD '1234';). Is this a limitation or a problem somewhere with how I have things configured? Is there are workaround? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Ed

Re: [GENERAL] Numeric user names

2004-10-18 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 06:31, Ed Stoner wrote: I am unable to use the CREATE USER command with numeric user names (i.e. CREATE USER 35236 WITH PASSWORD '1234';). Is this a limitation or a problem somewhere with how I have things configured? Is there are workaround? A username is an