Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:43:31 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Longer usernames? Message-ID: <199606200713.QAA05653@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960619231432.12022B-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 19, 96 11:18:14 pm
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Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > What is the general consensus on usernames longer than 8 chars? I've > been doing some testing on a -stable system with 16 character usernames, > and everything seems to work ok. NIS won't. > Also, I recently noticed that BSDI 2.1 supports 16 character usernames > too (UT_NAMESIZE is 16). This means that BSDI 2.1 bins that access wtmp, > utmp, etc will not work under FreeBSD. What do they do about NIS? Truncate the usernames? Bad bad bad. > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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