On Friday 13 July 2001 00:39, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.
Well, all that you say kinda flies in the face of my having users like
webmaster and hostmaster under an eD2.4 system. Why was it possible on a
2.2.14 kernel?
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"Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down."
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