:~>Do all Linux user names have a maximum Length of eight characters?  My
:~>server is complaining about user names not matching the names of the
:~>home directories.  Apparently it took the user names and truncated them
:~>to eight characters!

No.

useradd thisisverylongname

worked nicely here. More-or-less a LM 7.02 machine.

Denis
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