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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
To: Brian William Francis Tobin XXIX <jebudas@plato.virgil.net>
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Subject: adduser - more than 8 chars
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Brian William Francis Tobin XXIX writes:
>I was wondering if it was possible to add users with usernames larger 
>than 8 characters.

yes, but only in FreeBSD-3.0-current.

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Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/