Re: ADDUSER AND >8 Usernames?
Hi...
Just make sure that you have no other users with the same first 8
characters in their username!! (but of course you know this ;)
Alex
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:14:55 -0700
> From: Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
> To: Alexander <vulture@abac.com>
> Cc: Debian Userslist <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: ADDUSER AND >8 Usernames?
>
> Alexander wrote:
> > A hack like that may also mess up certain programs that expect a username
> > no longer than 8 characters. It's presumably possible, though.
>
> FWIW, I've had a user on my system with a username of 9 characters for a
> long while with no problems. Some programs truncate the username to 8, but
> it works ok.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
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