Increasing the limitation of 8 char. for username

[Sreekumar Srinivas]

Hi all,

Can someone enlighten me on how to increase the limitation of 8 charecter on
username. The platform is hp ux 10.20 and a requirement has come to have a
username of more than 8 charecters.

Thanks,
Srini

[user not active]

You can create usernames with more than 8 characters manually by vi'ing the
/etc/passwd file. However this IS NOT SUPPORTED because of interoperability in
heterogenous systems using NIS and NIS+.

As a result youcannot use SAM and you should be aware that :

Testing with 2 usernames: "morethan" & "morethan8c"
- both required the full username string to log in, for example, logging in
"morethan8" yielded an invalid login ID.

I repeat this is not supported and my advise is to avoid doing this.

[Sachin Patel_2]

I agree. I had same problem. If you have username more then 8, in NIS it will
says unknown ID. big time problem. don't use it.

Sachin