Please help ...

How increase login length on AIX 5.2 ? Now is 8 chars...

Thanks

Boris

Boris wrote:
> Please help ...
> How increase login length on AIX 5.2 ? Now is 8 chars...

Not possible in AIX 5.2.
Starting with AIX 5.3 you can use the
'smit chgsys' menu and change the field:
Maximum login name length at boot time [9]
which corresponds to the command:
chdev -l sys0 -a max_logname=9

Paul Landay

"Boris" <boris.kovacevic@hpb.hr> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Please help ...
>
> How increase login length on AIX 5.2 ? Now is 8 chars...
>
> Thanks
>
> Boris
>
Hallo Boris,

This 8 char length is Unix default. AFAIK it cannot be changed with AIX.
(You can use longer logins but AIX will use the first 8 chars only).
However, you might check out the secondary authentication method that can be
defined/customised for every user.

HTH,
Andreas

Paul Landay <landay@us.ibm.com> wrote in news:4199E2F3.36E75C68@us.ibm.com:

> Boris wrote:
>> Please help ...
>> How increase login length on AIX 5.2 ? Now is 8 chars...
>
> Not possible in AIX 5.2.
> Starting with AIX 5.3 you can use the
> 'smit chgsys' menu and change the field:
> Maximum login name length at boot time [9]
> which corresponds to the command:
> chdev -l sys0 -a max_logname=9
>
> Paul Landay

Oh goody! I can smell the stuff burning! :-)


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