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Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:57:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> 2) No, it's not necessarily stable enough for a production environment,
>    but 2.2-RELEASE also supports >8-letter logins, and that is stable
>    enough.

Is there a knob you have to twist for this?

I removed the length test from adduser and created a long user
name.  chown complained about an invalid name and I can't
login to the account.  (gets login failed)

Dan
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