Long User names
Cole, Timothy D.
timothy_d_cole at md.northgrum.com
Tue Feb 22 15:23:22 GMT 2000
Hmm. afaiK, there are a number that do allow that. but certainly not a
majority.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [SMTP:lkcl at samba.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 1:22
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> Subject: Re: Long User names
>
> 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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