[OpenAFS] overide 8 char userids?
Russ Allbery
rra@stanford.edu
22 Aug 2001 17:34:02 -0700
Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
> My guess is that this limit is in uss (which I've never used), because
> it's making the assumption that usernames should match the Unix username
> which traditionally has been limited to 8 characters. I am _fairly_
> sure that neither Kerberos nor PTServer have an 8-character limit.
We've had both principals and PTS users longer than 8 characters in our
Transarc kaserver and ptserver for quite some time, and I'm pretty sure
OpenAFS wouldn't have broken any of that.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>