Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 05:11:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom) Cc: opsys@mail.webspan.net, ircadmin@shellnet.co.uk, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8 char username limitations Message-ID: <199804040511.WAA28669@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980403193148.16748A-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom" at Apr 3, 98 07:34:11 pm
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> > 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). Right. It breaks NIS *clients*, not *NIS*. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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