Group ID's & Oracle 8

From: Paul Grant <paul.grant_at_kscl.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 11:38:00 +0100

OSF Managers,
                       I have two very quick questions I would like feed back on.

1) We have a requirement to have group names that are larger than 8 characters. This is possible by editing the addgroup script case statement and adding extra ? symbols (or by manually editing the /etc/group file). Security is unaffected, we have tested that long group names created by addgroup and manually and found them to work OK. So....

Why is there a limit to eight, why do longer groups still work and what standard defined this???????

2) Oracle 8 on DU 4.0b - anyone out there tried it and go bitten (or liked what they saw)? Any feed back on problems/howlers that Oracle want to keep under their hat or is it the best release yet?

Many thanks in anticipation!

Regards

Paul W Grant (Kingston SCL)
Received on Tue Oct 21 1997 - 13:00:40 NZDT

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