Long User names

[Charles N. Owens]

With FreeBSD 3.0 and up usernames may be up to 16 characters in length.


Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> 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 !
> >
>
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>
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