WHM username max length

[gemininetcom]

Running WHM 8.5.1 and having problems with account creation and max length of username.

WHM manual states "username field will automatically populate with first 8 characters of domainname, but you can change this to whatever you want"

Found that username still can have max only 8 characters and by default we use username same as domainname less gtld, i.e. cpanel7890123456.net username: cpanel7890123456

Anyone with more info on tis subject ??

tks,
robby

[PWSowner]

Take a look at your /scripts/wwwacct file around line 385 and you will see

if ($ENV{'LONGUSERS'} ne "1") {
if (length($user) > 8) { deaderror "Sorry that username is too long. MAX is 8 letters"; }
}

[gemininetcom]

big tks - will try later

rgds,
robby

[gemininetcom]

squirrel,

followed ur advise and it works OK:OK

only problems is that every day i have to redo the edit as whm updates automatically and my edit of /scripts/wwwacct is every time overwritten

upgrade preferences are:
cpanel/whm : automatic/stable
darkORB : automatic
security : automatic

any smart idea how to avoid also upgrade every day of /scripts/wwwacct ??

rgds,
robby

[PWSowner]

That's where you want my watchwwwacct script. It's in this thread.

[gemininetcom]

squirrel:

like to get out also the restriction on username with dash "-" and I tried to comment out next line, but it did not work:

QUOTE
# if ($user =~ /-/) { deaderror "Sorry usernames cannot contain a dash."; } # modif 20031217 RF
UNQUOTE

on top of it: systems returns again error that username too long although max length has been put to >20

any clue?

just one more topic: actually we also need to create a username starting with a digit, so we need to make one more change to get out "allowstupidstuff"

tks,
robby

[GOT]

Due to some MySQL irregularities, I really do not recomend that you allow the - in usernames. It is way more trouble than it is worth.

[gemininetcom]

::GotHosting, tks for advise. will follow it for our new accounts, but have still old accounts where username name is same as domain, i.e. abcd-xyz.com and username = abc-xyz

username is then used in all kinds of modules, so it is annoying now to have to modif all those usernames and inform customers to have to change all their logins.

tks and CU,
Robby Fokkens