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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 09:26:02 +0000
From: Darius Moos <moos@degnet.baynet.de>
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To: Juan Emilio Llor <root@nexus.es>
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Sendmail has problems with usernames longer than 8 chars.
Had the same problem. Try using usernames not longer than 8 chars
and aliases as long as you need it. With aliases longer than 8 chars
sendmail has no problems.

Darius Moos.


Juan Emilio Llor wrote:
> 
> Dear friend:
> 
> I speak english very litle, then I'm sorry.
> 
> I have a problem:
> 
> We works with a Sun machine, with the Solaris System V.
> 
> We need now create all the Sun users in a machine
> with Free Bsd, but the Free Bsd don't accept user names
> longers than 8 characters !!!
> 
> We'd resolved the problem with the aliases file, but
> it is not enough for us, because there are some
> problems with the mail, not for send, but for recall.
> 
> Can we create users with more than 8 characters???
> 
> The FreeBsd version is: 2.1, and runs in a Pentium PC.
> 
> Thank-you very much!
> --
>    ---------------------------------------------------
>     Juan Emilio Llor               Tel. 93 - 423 08 18
>     mailto:llor@nexus.es           Fax. 93 - 325 48 72
>     http://www.nexus.es
> 
>     Nexus Comunicaciones, S.A.
>     Gran Via de Les Corts Catalanes, 322
>     08004 Barcelona
>    ---------------------------------------------------

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