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
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