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 recall setting up a sunos 4 network in the early 90's and there definitely was a hard limit of 8 characters back then. I don't know if it ever changed because we adopted a user naming scheme that truncated the usernames to 8 characters until well after nis was gone from the network. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
