From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 1: 2:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from inet.chip-web.com (c1003518-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.1.82.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 11EC2155FF for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 01:02:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ludwigp@bigfoot.com) Received: (qmail 2876 invoked from network); 7 Apr 1999 08:00:38 -0000 Received: from speedy.chip-web.com (HELO speedy) (172.16.1.1) by inet.chip-web.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 1999 08:00:38 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19990407005735.00ab3d70@mail-r> X-Sender: ludwigp2@mail-r X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 01:00:13 -0700 To: Aldrin L , "Paul D. Schmidt" From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: /etc/passwd limits Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:57 AM 4/7/99 , Aldrin L wrote: >On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Paul D. Schmidt wrote: > >> thanks :) > > Just a small mistake: FreeBSD, among other unixen, tries to limit >the userid to 8 chars. I don't know where this restriction came from, but >i think you should obey. The 8 character limit is only in pre-3.x FreeBSDs. 3.x and above default to 16-character limits on usernames. It's possible to change this to 24 or something higher by modifying a few header files (this was discussed in -questions or -stable a few weeks ago). --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) ICQ UIN: 692441 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message