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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