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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