>[der Mouse]
>> How is 7 "the _practical_ limit"?  I work with a system that has a
>> lot of users with 8-character login names and we've had no trouble.

>I've run into problems with them from time to time.  It has to do with
>how the login name in certain cases is kept in an 8 byte array, and
>not necessarily null-terminated.  DECwindows/Ultrix, at least up to
>and including version 4.2, did not allow people with 8 character login
>names to log in on the console.  From the syslog messages, it was

Huh?!?!  I, "michaelv", logged in to bunches of old Ultrix consoles
without problems...

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           michaelv@MindBender.serv.net
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