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SubjectRe: long username
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 03:07:20PM -0800, ywlee wrote:
> hi,
> does anyone know where to change in the kernel source, so that the
> allowable username can be more than the current 8 characters?

AFAIK, kernel does not care about names only numerical UIDs (user ID).
Translating between user names and uids are based on /etc/passwd file
and it's done by libc. This is not a kernel issue. Please correct me if
I'm wrong.

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