username db def

[James H. Thompson]

I noticed that the UNIX username field in the DB
is defined as 8 char -- some Unix systems (like Redhat 5) allow
much longer login names.

There are lots of fields defined in the DB as char(255)
I didn't quite understand the reasoning for this choice.
The DB would takes lots less space on disk if it were varchar(255)
and how out you print out an address line if someone actually
managed to put 255 characters in it?

Jim
jht at aloha.net