Albert E. Whale wrote on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 09:15:24PM -0400 : > How do I eliminate the 8 character User ID on LM 8.2?
There is no such limit:
[root@fiji ~]# useradd thisisaverylongname
[root@fiji ~]# vdir /home
total 28
drwx------ 3 gc gc 120 Aug 31 10:48 gc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jul 8 15:59 mp3
dr-x------ 3 test test 141 Aug 7 15:55 test
drwx------ 3 thisisaverylongname thisisaverylongname 100 Sep 5
19:42 th
isisaverylongname
drwxr-xr-x 88 todd todd 8192 Sep 5 19:41 todd
drwxr-xr-x 7 todd2 users 4096 Sep 5 16:50 todd2
[root@fiji ~]# vdir /home
total 28
drwx------ 3 gc gc 120 Aug 31 10:48 gc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jul 8 15:59 mp3
dr-x------ 3 test test 141 Aug 7 15:55 test
drwx------ 3 thisisaverylongname thisisaverylongname 100 Sep 5
19:42 thisisaverylongname
drwxr-xr-x 88 todd todd 8192 Sep 5 19:41 todd
drwxr-xr-x 7 todd2 users 4096 Sep 5 16:50 todd2
Blue skies... Todd
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...and I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious
anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my binaries, and you
will know my name is root, when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
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