On Saturday 2012-02-18 10:02, Milan Knížek wrote:
>> 
>> The 16 character limit in Arch is just like the 80 character "limit"
>> in coding. But actually, it is not a limit, but a wellness target: it
>> may be exceeded if there is a justification. In contrast, historic
>> UNIX usernames of 8 chars - /that/ was a limit.
>
>This seems to be a compilation-time configure option
>GROUP_NAME_MAX_LENGTH...

POSIX does say something about users in section
- 3.425 User ID
- 3.426 User Name
- 3.276 Portable Filename Character Set
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_426

Everything else should therefore be self-inflicted distro limits. :)
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