From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 11:43:35 EDT
the reason i was told...way back on 4.1.5 was the 8 character limit had to do with either home directory names, or mboxes.
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
Jon D. Benson
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:17 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: Newbie question about user name length
It is not a general UNIX restriction -- I have longer names on my
Solaris and my Linux systems. AIX seems to be unique. Maybe it is a
legacy IBM thing? I would love to find a work around myself.
-- Jon D. Benson Network Systems Administrator Neurome, Inc. Green, Simon wrote: > 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. > -- > Simon Green > Altria ITSC Europe Ltd > > AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html > > New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX > > N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. > Please post all follow-ups to the list. > > >>-----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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