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Re: Short name longer than 8 characters?

Hmm. I've found that tho the Server Admin won't let you set a long short
name, NetInfo Manager has no problems with it. Is this bad then if I set
longer short names here? I haven't seen any problems so far (~3 months).


>On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 06:20 pm, Kiran Weber wrote:
>
>> If there is no way around
>> this it would be totally ridiculous.
>
>Unix shortnames are a maximum of 8 characters long. Always have been.
>That has nothing to do with mail addresses: if you want more set up some
>mail aliases. How you do that depends on which email system you're
>using.
>
>Simon Slavin
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>Computing Development Officer 01524 65201 x 93569
>Psychology Department
>University of Lancaster
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