You'd be grateful to have long name choices, if you were administrator
of a university or large corporation with the responsibility of
keeping respectable names. A conflict with names of the same kind can
create enormous back-draft and downtime.
Also, in such large processing systems, you don't have time to write
each username, so you create programs, scripts, and batch jobs to do
the time consuming chores.
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Steven Pierce wrote:
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> Just to be differnet..<G> Not me, I am glad that I can use shorter names. If I had
>to write
> myusernameislongerthanyoursis each time, I would rethink Unix..<G>
>
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> On 7/29/2000 at 10:53 AM Gordon Messmer wrote:
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> >On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, SoloCDM wrote:
> >
> >> What adjustment do I make to create larger usernames in Linux?
> >
> >Larger than what? My system (Red Hat 6.2) supports 32 character usernames
> >without any modifications. I fail to see why anyone would want a username
> >longer than "myusernameislongerthanyoursis". It makes logging in a PITA
> >:)
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