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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


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