Thanks for your response.....I tried that and it worked....
however...to answer my own questiuon. /etc/aliases is what i ended up using.
I didn't read enough =P
Dan
At 08:33 AM 3/18/98 +0000, Tom Kistner wrote:
>Dan Cyr wrote:
>>
>> Why is it that i can't 'adduser majordomo' ?
>> My system tells me "majordomo is over 8 characters"
>>
>> Or did I not read enough of the majordomo docs to find out it's some sort
>> of alias thats needed?
>>
>> If it is an alias please tell me how to do it, i haven't a clue.
>
>do adduser major, then edit /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
>
>or patch the useradd source, which is what i did. the limit is in for
>posix compliance i think.
>
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