Paul F. Williams said:
> Is there really a limit? Or is there just a mistake in
> the two group programs?
>
> Is there a problem with using such long names.
there is a limit. Though the limit may vary from OS to OS.
Generally good practice is to limit to 8 characters or less
for usernames and gro
I encountered a problem with long group names
on a redhat linux system recently. I saw the
same behavior on Redhat 7.2, 8.0.
It looks like there is a 16 character limit when using
/usr/sbin/groupadd and /usr/sbin/grpchk
But no such limit occurs with /usr/sbin/useradd
For example, when using usera
