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When I try to edit do crontab for a user with a long username on solaris 10 I get this error:

crontab: login name too long

Is this a known problem and is there a solution for it (without changing the username)?

The username is 27 characters long.

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I never saw that before.

But, while we don't discover how to fix this issue, try to edit the crontab file by vi command.

vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/"username"

It will help you meanwhile.

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After some quick googling it appears that many of Sun's unix tools follow the Unix convention of 8 or less character usernames. It seems that Solaris will allow you to use longer usernames, but it is not a certified or supported configuration.

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  • True enough. But not really helpful, is it?
    – innaM
    Sep 9, 2009 at 17:31

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