James Carlson wrote:
> Just for the sake of sanity, I'd like to see a rule limiting
> system-supplied names to 8 characters, at least for a while.
In the best Postelian tradition of "Be liberal in what you accept, and
conservative in what you send." and in the spirit of the many other
"not this case" answers in this review, how about we just record in the
case log:
This case modifies Solaris/OpenSolaris to accept usernames longer
than 8 characters.
This case does *not* modify Solaris/OpenSolaris to provide any
default users with usernames longer than 8 characters, nor does
it modify the (probably unwritten but long and well enforced)
requirement that cases adding new users to the system provide a
user name that is no more than 8 characters from the subset of
ASCII documented in passwd(4).
If/when a case comes to the ARC proposing a username that doesn't fit that
requirement, it will be responsible for establishing new policy/precedent.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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