I use long 8+ usernames in the common first.last in Redhat and Solaris with no problem, it works just fine (I have done this for ~8 years now). The only issue I've ever seen is 'top' and 'ps' don't like it, so you see the UID# instead of the username.
-Brandon On 01/20/2011 06:43 PM, Zebee Johnstone wrote: > I want to, amongst other things, qury our Active Directory server for > passwords. So use 389 as a directory server (using NIS scheme and netgroups) > with AD passwords. > > Problem is... our AD uses usernames of First Last and a kerberos principle of > first.last. Where as the unix (linux, AIX, HPUX, Solaris) boxes use 8char > usernames. > > The password sync stuff I've seen isn't very clear. Does the AD > samAccountName have to be the same as the unix username? Or is there > somewhere on 389 or on AD where I can do a lookup? > > This > http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Directory_Server/8.2/html/Administration_Guide/Using_Windows_Sync-Synchronizing_Users.html > seems to say there's a field ntUserDomainId that would do that job, is that > used in the sync? > > Is there any documentation on setting this up? > > Zebee > -- > 389 users mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users -- 389 users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/389-users
