Re: Newbie question about user name length

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 05:16:55 EDT


Yes.

You can end up with longer names in the configuration files if someone edits
them directly - I've seen this where people have edited /etc/passwd to make
a place-holder entry. However, this won't be useable and will cause errors
with various other commands.

I think that this is a general UNIX restriction.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AUBINEAU Cyril [mailto:caubineau@SIGMA.FR]
> Sent: 16 April 2004 09:48
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Newbie question about user name length
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Limited to 8 chars for a login name for aix 4.3.3 ?


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