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- From: jesse@sgi.com (Jesse Rendleman)
- Subject: Re: Creating Users with more than 8 chars?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.184919.473@news.csd.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <106544@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:49:19 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <106544> din@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din) writes:
- >Can user login names exceed 8 characters in IRIX 4? I successfully
- >created an account with a login name of 9 letters. When I do an ls -l
- >on that acct, I see:
- >
- >file xxxxxxxxxyyyyy etc etc...
- >
- >where xxxxxxxxx is the login name and yyyyy is the group. There is
- >no space between the x's and y's. Besides this problem, are there
- >any others I have to worry about?
-
- From the passwd(4) man page:
-
- The passwd file contains the following information for each user:
-
- name User's login name - contains no upper case characters and must
- not be greater than eight characters long.
-
- ...
-
- The fact that invalid accounts can be created is a known bug, reportedly
- fixed in the next major o/s release.
-
- The philosophical argument whether 8 characters is a reasonable limit for
- user name length is left to the gods of unix.
-
- --
- Jesse Rendleman (jesse@sgi.com)
- Software Engineer, Silicon Graphics Inc. <<< Don't touch my monkey! >>>
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