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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:28:05 -0600 (MDT)
From: John-David Childs <jdc@denver.net>
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Subject: Re: adduser - more than 8 chars
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On Fri, 25 Jul 1997, Wolfram Schneider wrote:

> 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.
> 

It's *possible* in FreeBSD 2.x (I've been doing it since 2.1.0) but most
likely **unsupported** :-)
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