[ale] Linux userids

[tfreeman]

I'm not sure about this, but doesn't the PAM (or somesuch name) project
with SUN, and participated in by Red Hat Software address this issue at
least indirectly?

On Wed, 20 Nov 1996, David Hamm wrote:

> Dan Newcombe wrote:
> > 
> > > Quick question:
> > >       Is there any way possible to get past the 8 character limitation for
> > > user IDs on Linux (Slakware 2.0.1)?
> > >       I know it is a weird question, but there is a good reason for it.
> > 
> > I think this was tossed around over the summer on this list.  It's
> > probably on the hypermail archive.  The findings I think were that you
> > would have to modify login, libc, and basically any other program that
> > only allocated 8 spaces for userid's, which could be quite a task.
> > 
> >         -Dan
> > 
> > --
> > Dan Newcombe (newcombe at aa.csc.peachnet.edu)
> > http://www.csc.peachnet.edu/home/dan/
> > -  You kill three people, they call you a murderer.  You kill a million
> >    people, they call you a conqueror.  Go figure.
> >                                     John Lithgow, _Cliffhanger_
> Maybe not.  I think I asked that question and did a little research on
> it.  I found that the login program would have to be modified and I so I
> changed it and it seemed to work.  I also found that many of the
> programs refer to a define in the .h files.  It looked like a good
> project but I don't know enough about unix to pull it off.  
> I wonder if we could get some interest in the ALE group to make this a
> project.  It would help linux compete in the commercial server market.
> 
> Later
> 
> David
>