Long User names
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at samba.org
Tue Feb 22 06:21:05 GMT 2000
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
> ------------------------------------------------------------
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> .... Humpty Dumpty was pushed !
>
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