If I'm right, only the first 8 characters are relevant.
The rest is ignored. There is no difference between two
user names, if the first 8 characters are equal.
OK this may be the sort of strictly logical advice I hate getting, but
if you have typed in a name that was too long, and presumably at least
one that isn't, then a braindead binary search (8 chars -- OK, 100
chars -- too long, 50 chars -- too long, 30 chars -- OK, 40 chars --
too long, etc.
Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, here's my silly, newbie-esque question for the week: how many
> characters are allowed in a username? I'm under the impression that it is
> 8, but 'adduser' allows you to create users with more characters than
> that.
A year or more ago, I had
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:03:05AM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> Hello, everyone,
>
> Ok, here's my silly, newbie-esque question for the week: how many
> characters are allowed in a username? I'm under the impression that it is
> 8, but 'adduser' allows you to create users with more character
Hmm, this can't be it since it won't accept my full name (22 characters).
> I am not sure this is true but try 256 characters. I think that what
> they setup for WindowsNT and Linux was following?
>
> Dan
>
> Matthew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello, everyone,
> >
> > Ok, he
Hello, everyone,
Ok, here's my silly, newbie-esque question for the week: how many
characters are allowed in a username? I'm under the impression that it is
8, but 'adduser' allows you to create users with more characters than
that.
You'd also think that it would be easy to find the answer to t
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