Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 19:34:11 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <tom@sdf.com> To: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> Cc: Steven Fletcher <ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8 char username limitations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980403193148.16748A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980403145105.29578B-100000@orion.webspan.net>
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On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Open Systems Networking wrote: > 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). Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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