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I’m old enough to recall local user account names being limited to 8-characters.
by tiffanyh 1y ago
I’m old enough to recall local user account names being limited to 8-characters.
- layer8 1y agoI was wondering whether this was strongly tied to the initial file name limit, since home directories were named after the user. And what do you mean "old enough", I still had new support accounts restricted to 8 characters by clients this year. ;)
- einr 1y agoThis wasn't even that long ago if you were on Solaris. We used to be a Solaris shop, and even though we migrated our last Solaris boxes to Linux about 7 years ago, most of our usernames still adhere to the 8 character limit for the sake of consistency.
- TheOtherHobbes 1y agoDEC's TOPS-10 had six chars plus a three char extension - 6.3 CP/M and MS-DOS extended this to a much more generous 8.3
- tssva 1y agoTRSDOS for the TRS-80 line of computers was like CP/M heavily influenced by TOPS-10. It allowed 8 characters names with a 3 letter extension but used “/“ instead of “.” as the separator.
- drob518 1y agoI worked at an F500 company a couple years ago that still restricts all its email addresses to 8 characters because those double as your corporate ID and sometimes got used in Unix systems with an 8-character restriction. I don’t know if they still have any systems with that restriction. They probably don’t know either, and it has become a cargo cult.