username length?

[Troy]

No, I dont belive I am joking. :P

Im sure it has something to do with Owl being BSD like when it comes to
alot of things (it supports make buildworld BSD style and what not..)  But
since it IS linux I KNOW it can support longer then 8.  I just cant find
any information about what controls username length.  Ive looked through
pam stuff and found nothing.  Figurered maybe it had to do with
adduser/useradd.. but I cant find anything there either.

Troy


On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Nigel Sollars wrote:

>
>  your joking right?
>
>  maybe there is a security risk with long filenames ;P
>
> regards
>
> Nige
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 3:55 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: username length?
>
>
>
>   Ok, Im stuck on this one and Im sure its something Im missing
> somewhere..
>
> Im running Owl aka Openwall linux.  Its core design is based on security
> for ISP like environments.  Now, here is the problem.  Almost every dist
> of linux I have ever used supports usernames longer then 8 characters, but
> Owl does not.  Does anyone know what controls this, and where a conf file
> might be found in order to chnage it to accept say, 9 character usernmes?
>
> Thanks
>
> Troy Moniz
>
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