Re: Solaris 8 username contingency

From: Thomas Insel (tinsel@tinsel.org)
Date: 06/23/02 

Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 13:07:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Insel <tinsel@tinsel.org>
To: pavan gokarn <pavango22@email.com>

On 22 Jun 2002, pavan gokarn wrote:

> i have a problem with Solaris 8 username ristrictions. normally the
> username is by default 8 charecters long only. due to certain difficulties
> i need to change this default to 15 charecters. can anyone help me with
> this. there is a file in which i have to make some changes. which one is
> it?

This isn't tuneable.

If you're not using NIS/NIS+/LDAP, you can probably just put
the overlong logins in /etc/passwd and get away with it. But
there's no guarantee it won't cause a problem somewhere.

Tom