Re: Solaris 9 username longer that 8 characters

george2 <george@xxxxxxx> wrote:
What little witch, I have tried loggin in with ssh and no problems. Can you
be more specific, cos I'm doing a lot of work on the assumption that this is
ok. I dont want to end up in a cauldron !!

There are many threads about this subject in the past in c.u.s.

Basically, there's no testing that anything over 8 works, and the
problems are likely to arise at the interaction between programs.

Imagine a utility that is checking on processes and uses 'ps -ef'.
Well, that format only prints the first 8 characters of a username. If
it summarizes the output, it will likely be incorrect for users with
long names.

Some other utility may print the full name properly, but shift the rest
of the data down. Now that output goes to some other program that
didn't think usernames could be more than 8 characters, so it gets
confused that the other data has shifted.

So the core things like logging in will work just fine. Other things
may not.

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