Use longer short names in Jaguar

Aug 29, '02 05:57:34AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

One 'feature' on X that was giving me headaches was the eight character limit on short user names. This is a huge issue for migrating users in the future who already have long IDs.

So my coworker clean installs 10.2 today, and now he can enter a nine character short name. There are no longer any notes to use only eight characters, and no error is thrown when the user is created. Joy!

[Editor's note: I haven't tested this one on my machine.]

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