Re: username character limits

[Jens Ritter <jens@unsolved.weh.rwth-aachen.de>]

Jonathon Spaeth <jspaeth@lhskc.com> writes:

> Sir or Madame:
> 
> My name is Jonathon Spaeth and I am trying to find a stable version of
> linux that has no 8-character username limit.  

Look for the libpam library (PAM = Pluggable authentication modules,
or something like that). 
It might be configurable for longer names. At least it should be the
easiest way to deal consistently with longer names.

HTH,

Jens
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