SuSE Linux: All versions
useradd
does not allow to create accounts whose login name is longer than
8 characters:
useradd: invalid user name 'long_name'
Many programs cannot work with names longer than 8 characters.
Unfortunately, you have to learn to live with this limitation. Please do not
try to circumvent this restriction manually (e.g. editing the
file /etc/passwd
) or by means of YaST.
Thanks to the sendmail package, users can be reached per e-mail under
their whole names (e.g. as name.surname@do.main
). This feature
can also be implemented with the corresponding entry in the file /etc/mail/aliases
.
Do not use uppercase, blanks, special characters or semi-graphical characters such as hyphens in the login name.