On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 12:37:31PM +0200, ignat...@cs.uni-bonn.de wrote:
>
> which is the only one supported by old YP code, in case you still
> have e.g. an sunos4 client in your network.
>
If you have a sunos 4 nis client then it probably won't like the > 8
character usernames either. I recal
Hi,
an addendum:
utmp and wtmp have a 8 character limit for the username.
utmpx and wtmpx, which I think we have since last century,*
have 32bit limit, so if your tools use the latter log files,
you're safe with 32 character username. If you exceed the limit,
last(8) etc. will only show the trunc
Hi,
On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 11:12:25AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> IIRC you could always use longer names if they were unique within the first
> 8 chars.
After failing to find hints in the YP code, other than variable
lengthes for both key and data, I decided to experiment:
Fortunately, I d
On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 11:12:25 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> IIRC you could always use longer names if they were unique within the first
> 8 chars.
That's possible, and it is certainly true for the long account names
here.
> Maybe it would be ok to ignore any such limits anyway since in setups w
On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 10:53:58AM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote:
> > The limit still exists if you use NIS to manage passwords.
>
> It does? My YP master says
>
> % awk -F: '{ if (length($1) > 8) { print $1 }}' < /etc/passwd | wc -l
> 18
> %
>
> The linux and freebsd clients seem to be fine wit
On Wed, 3 Apr 2024 07:50:33 +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 05:34:21AM +, Charlotte Koch wrote:
>> The 8 character limit is probably some historical thing, and besides,
>> it's completely bogus. I create accounts called 'charlotte' (9 chars)
>> all the time, with and wit
