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 > > -- > > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
