[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/>