Solo,
Thank you. Did not think of it that way. Since I do everything for home,
I have not seen what can happen on a campus..
Steven
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On 7/30/2000 at 12:51 AM SoloCDM wrote:
>You'd be grateful to have long name choices, if you were administrator
>of a university or large corporation with the responsibility of
>keeping respectable names. A conflict with names of the same kind can
>create enormous back-draft and downtime.
>
>Also, in such large processing systems, you don't have time to write
>each username, so you create programs, scripts, and batch jobs to do
>the time consuming chores.
>
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>Signed,
>SoloCDM
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>Steven Pierce wrote:
>>
>> Just to be differnet..<G> Not me, I am glad that I can use shorter names. If I
>had to write
>> myusernameislongerthanyoursis each time, I would rethink Unix..<G>
>>
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>> On 7/29/2000 at 10:53 AM Gordon Messmer wrote:
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>> >On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, SoloCDM wrote:
>> >
>> >> What adjustment do I make to create larger usernames in Linux?
>> >
>> >Larger than what? My system (Red Hat 6.2) supports 32 character usernames
>> >without any modifications. I fail to see why anyone would want a username
>> >longer than "myusernameislongerthanyoursis". It makes logging in a PITA
>> >:)
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