current-users: user name length

Subject: user name length
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/13/1999 09:13:36

is there an 8 character limit on the length of user names?
is this a limit because many scripts and pieces of software
assume that a user name can be no longer than 8 characters?

thanks
nick