From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mikel Bauer Subject: Re: Username > 8 Char. Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:57:49 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EDCB76D.2040902@bridgeband.net> References: <5.1.1.5.2.20030603093831.00af9440@mail2.wheatonma.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.5.2.20030603093831.00af9440@mail2.wheatonma.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Tice Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Have you tried? NIS will support anything thats valid in a *nix system authentiaction. David Tice wrote: > Is it possible to have username greater then 8 char. > I am running RH 7.1 - 7.3 using nis for auth. > > We are going to a one card system using ldap within the next year. Our > mail system lives on a > Penguin RH 7.3 box and file storage is on Dell RH 7.3 box. > > The ID we were planning on using is 9 char which comes from our Business > system software. > > If you require more info please let me know. > Any thoughts and help would be great. > > David. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > -- Mikel Bauer