On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote: > Hello, > > are there any best practices for the length of user names? > > I tend to limit them to 8 characters and to follow the pattern 'first > letter of the first name'+'first 7 letters of the last name' (e.g. > mbaudier). > > But people are sometimes frustrated with having their last name > truncated and I wonder if limiting the user name to 8 characters is > not a kind of superstition coming from some old times... > > I would be very interested to hear opinions / experience about this. > (I'm using CentOS 5.5) > > Thanks in advance! > > Mathieu > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Never had problems with username lengths. Haven't really made any measurements but I had quite long names i.e. username at some-long-mail-domain.com without any problems.