[OpenAFS] overide 8 char userids?

[Derek Atkins]

So does Hesiod, which does NOT have the 8-char limit.

-derek

Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:

> Marcus Watts <mdw@umich.edu> writes:
> 
> > NIS has an 8 character limit, but of course if you have AFS and kerberos
> > you should not be using NIS.
> 
> Um.  NIS is still one of the best ways to distribute all the information
> in /etc/passwd *other* than the actual password.  LDAP will eventually
> work for this, but right now it still requires nsswitch modules, and many
> Unix platforms don't support either yet.  However, every Unix supports
> NIS.
> 
> NIS+ is a completely waste of time and at least on Solaris can't scale to
> anywhere near the number of users as NIS, but NIS works quite nicely and
> quite reliably for distributing essentially information, like username to
> UID mappings.
> 
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