From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 1: 5:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sucuri.amazon.com.br (sucuri.amazon.com.br [200.241.240.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43BF15720 for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 01:04:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aldrin@americasnet.com) Received: from athome.logicStudios.org (root@pm3-s05.amazon.com.br [200.242.245.38]) by sucuri.amazon.com.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA17109; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 05:02:58 -0300 Received: from athome.logicStudios.org (aldrin@athome.logicStudios.org [10.0.0.1]) by athome.logicStudios.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01003; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 05:11:38 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from aldrin@americasnet.com) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 05:11:38 -0300 (EST) From: Aldrin L X-Sender: aldrin@athome.logicStudios.org To: Ludwig Pummer Cc: "Paul D. Schmidt" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/passwd limits In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990407005735.00ab3d70@mail-r> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Ludwig Pummer wrote: > 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). Hm... this answers my doubt why. Well, i'm on 2.2.8-RELEASE. :] Thanks for your explanation. :] done, Aldrin Leal . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message