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Message-ID: <20070603024312.GA19474@openwall.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 06:43:12 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Plesk 8.1.1 + Owl :)
Galaxy,
Thank you for spending the time to write down and post those notes, and
for bringing life back to this quiet mailing list.
I haven't reviewed this yet (and I might not do it ever), but here's one
thing I've noticed:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:43:42PM +0400, (GalaxyMaster) wrote:
> 4. RHEL don't mind you having long account names but Owl restricts them
> to 8 characters. Unfortunately, the RH webalizer package uses a long
> name so we need to mimic it here:
>
> # useradd -s /sbin/nologin -d /var/www/usage webalize
> # for f in /etc/passwd /etc/groups /etc/tcb/webalize/shadow ; do
> sed -i 's,^webalize:,webalizer:,g' $f
> done
> # mv /etc/tcb/webalize /etc/tcb/webalizer
>
> NB: pwck will bark on 'webalizer' but we will fix this later.
This is a really weird workaround. There exists a simple solution -
edit the USERNAME_MAX setting in /etc/login.defs. By default it's 8,
but it can be increased to 9 for the "useradd" command to add
"webalizer". Then it can be changed back to 8, to enforce our default
length restriction on further users to be created.
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