Does getty not like names > 8 chars?

[Joe Habermann]

kory at avatar.com (Kory Hamzeh) writes:

>We are experiencing login problems for user's whos login name is greater
>than 8 characters. They can login under a different name and then su to
>the correct name.

Yes.  No program is to expected to support account names greater than 8
characters in length. Check man pages entries for passwd in section 5 for
more information.

Joe Habermann
haberman at msi.umn.edu