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Date:      Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Juan Emilio Llor <root@nexus.es>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: users
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960920005908.1049U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32422DC4.FC5@nexus.es>

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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Juan Emilio Llor wrote:

> I speak english very litle, then I'm sorry.

You have perfectly good English.

> 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???

You don't want to.  It is possible to hack the system up to use 8
character usernames, BUT you end up having to rebuild the whole system
from scratch (?).  Things break.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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