[ale] Linux userids

[newcombe at aa.csc.peachnet.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

> 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

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