From: Maglinger, Paul (PMAGLINGER@scvl.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 2002 - 09:40:57 EDT
My thanks to the many responses to my posting. It seems that even though
there are work-arounds to enable usernames of greater than 8 characters, the
majority of responses strongly recommended against it. Citing problems with
truncating the user names when using FTP and ls -l commands among others...
Although it's a little late for a us, the next domain I set up may contain
usernames of 8 characters just for compatibilty sake.
> I know, twice in a day... but is anyone aware of a way to have Unix
> usernames greater than 8 characters? We're running a mixed environment of
> Windows and Unix and I'm trying to have some consistancy here. and I
don't
> want to change the Windows usernames... <grin>
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