Bruce Marshall offered this little gem:
[snippage]
% Just found another 'wide decision' in SuSE 7.2
%
% Tried to add a user... like webmaster. Should be an easy thing to do.
%
% Nope... It es verboten to add a user uhnless it be 2 to 8 chars in length!!
%
% Dumb... totally dumb.
No, neither dumb nor totally dumb. Only recently has support for
user names longer than 8 characters developed. As long as you stay
within a strictly Linux (and, I believe, a strictly 2.4+ kernel
and glibc >= 2.1, but I could be mistaken) long user names are
fine. But, they are extremely non-portable - if you use NFS and/or
NIS (or NIS+) with non-Linux *NIXen systems, long user names may
cause problems. Big UIDs, on the other hand, are no problem.
% But just go to command line and use YAST instead of the gui YAST2. No
% problems, no questions asked.
%
% Dumb... totally dumb.
The GUI tool is behind. BFD. Point-and-click system administration
is bad idea, anyway. ;-)
Kurt
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