Bruce Marshall opined:
% On Friday 13 July 2001 00:39, Kurt Wall wrote:
% >
% > No, neither dumb nor totally dumb. Only recently has support for
% > user names longer than 8 characters developed. As long as you stay
% > within a strictly Linux (and, I believe, a strictly 2.4+ kernel
% > and glibc >= 2.1, but I could be mistaken) long user names are
% > fine. But, they are extremely non-portable - if you use NFS and/or
% > NIS (or NIS+) with non-Linux *NIXen systems, long user names may
% > cause problems. Big UIDs, on the other hand, are no problem.
%
% Well, all that you say kinda flies in the face of my having users like
% webmaster and hostmaster under an eD2.4 system. Why was it possible on a
% 2.2.14 kernel?
I *did* write "but I could be mistaken." eD2.4 isn't *that* old,
either. In any event, this is pointless so I'll drop the subject.
I've been up too long meeting deadlines, and I'm a grumpy curmudgeon
on my bet day anyway.
K
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