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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