Thanks to the many people who responded to my question about whether it
is possible to have usernames that exceed 8 characters under Solaris
2.6. (I was trying to make usernames consistent with our VMS systems
that allow 12 characters.)
The responses varied a lot. A couple people reported that they've done
it without any major problems. A lot of people thought that you could
do it, but that the OS would only pay attention to the first 8
characters (although based on my testing that didn't seem to be the
case). Most people said that even if Solaris would allow it, it
probably wasn't a good idea since there are a lot of Unix programs out
there that assume the 8 character limit.
I've decided to stick with 8 characters -- I'm not into tempting fate
these days.
Thanks again...
Chantelle Keller
Systems Programmer, Ithaca College
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:13:20 CDT