From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 3 21:11:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26013 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25995 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:11:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04049; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 22:11:47 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd004035; Fri Apr 3 22:11:45 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA28669; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 22:11:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804040511.WAA28669@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 8 char username limitations To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 05:11:40 +0000 (GMT) Cc: opsys@mail.webspan.net, ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Tom" at Apr 3, 98 07:34:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Under the documentation link i believe. > > You can change the names to 16 characters but it breaks compatability with > > some services like NIS I think. But you can do it. Have a look in the > > Does not break NIS. That is a myth which seems endlessly repeated... > which seems odd to me, as NIS is based on free-form text records, so it > could support usernames of a few hundred characters... > > It will however break on any system that can't handle 8+ usernames (ex. > SunOS 4.1.x). Right. It breaks NIS *clients*, not *NIS*. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message