Long User names

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

more than likely.  find a unix os that does >8 chars on unix names.

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, David Bannon wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> 
> Who knows about length of user name limits ? I have been using an old
> (Oct99) NTDom stream version in a production situation (NT4sp4) and have
> just found that our IT department is making student logon names as long as
> 15 characters. 
> 
> The NTDom side of things is fine, the user is logged on without problems
> but no home directory. The user can browse to homes but not the (homes)
> directory in their name.
> 
> Will I see similar problems in Head/TNG or TNG alone ? (if so, maybe I just
> hack at the old code I have here ...). 
> 
> David
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> David Bannon                      D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au
> School of Biochemistry            Phone 61 03 9479 2197
> La Trobe University, Plenty Rd,   Fax   61 03 9479 2467
> Bundoora, Vic, Australia, 3083    http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> .... Humpty Dumpty was pushed !
> 

<a href=" mailto:lkcl at samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
<a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl"  > Samba and Network Development   </a>
<a href=" http://samba.org"      > Samba Web site                  </a>
<a href=" http://www.iss.net"    > Internet Security Systems, Inc. </a>
<a href=" http://mcp.com"        > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>
 
ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals