Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 17:49:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com> To: David Langford <langfod@dihelix.com> Cc: bradley@dunn.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: longer usernames Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970411174629.579g-100000@haven.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <199704120022.OAA01332@caliban.dihelix.com>
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On Fri, 11 Apr 1997, David Langford wrote: > Whoops, no the confusion was whether or not FreeBSD to FreeBSD NIS would > work with long user names. > > In the past discusions it had usually been mentioned that NIS and long > user names would cause problems but it was never clear if this was > also the cause in homogenious environments. Misinformation being passed around by the misinformed. NIS is concerned with key-data pairs, the lengths of those pairs is imposed only by the underlying database (and a couple of other things). Even the SunOS 4.1 implementation of NIS has no problems with longer-usernames, its just that login truncates all user-ids to 8 characters before doing lookups (I guess, it is hard to verify without looking at the code). I did some real brief testing on this. Solaris 2.x has 16 character username support, and it definitely works with NIS. > :) > > -David Langford > langfod@dihelix.com > Tom
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