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
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