[ADVANCE NOTICE] usernames limited to 8 chars gonna be nasty

[Cole, Timothy D.]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Kurt Fitzner [SMTP:kfitzner at nexus.v-wave.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, April 13, 2000 14:22
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject:	Re: [ADVANCE NOTICE] usernames limited to 8 chars gonna be
> nasty
> 
> On 11-Apr-00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >> Don't tie it to the user name. In some cases (i.e. LDAP) it would be
> >> much better to add another multi-valued attribute like "NTDOMAIN". That
> >> way we could use that account for multiple domains, or move domains
> >> easily.
> > 
> > good idea.
> 
> You don't even need to go with LDAP.  Just use some of the extra fields in
> a
> passwd file entry.  The full-name field comes to mind.
> 
	Users can modify the GECOS fields, though... plus in some
organization, the GECOS fields are used for other purposes anyway...