* James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020903 22:20]: > I actually do need more than 8. You see our logins are often used in > conjunction with e-mail 1st initial and last name... In my case that's > 11 letters. One guy at work has a 16 letter last name. So yes without > being unreasonable the 8 letter limit does cause some problems. I wish I > knew how to get past the limit myself. Although everything I've tried > hasn't worked. (Nor have I tried that hard yet)
What happens when you put in a username longer than 8 characters? We give 8-character names to all students, but several faculty members have usernames longer ... I think a maximum of about 12. Once in a while you don't see more than 8 characters in a listing, but otherwise than that it seems to work OK. This is on a Mandrake 8.2 server with Win 98 and LTSP clients. And as for Windows, as far as I know almost every Win2K and WinXP box has a user named Administrator ... although ridiculous (I'd lots rather be root ;-) it IS 13 characters. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML
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