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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
