From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 19 23:41:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA21466 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA21461 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA05653; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:43:34 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606200713.QAA05653@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Longer usernames? To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 16:43:31 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 19, 96 11:18:14 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[