From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 20 01:00:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA19492 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line8.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.123]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA19468 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id BAA01225; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:00:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 01:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Juan Emilio Llor cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: users In-Reply-To: <32422DC4.FC5@nexus.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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