From owner-freebsd-isp Sun May 19 14:16:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA23804 for isp-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 14:16:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA23799; Sun, 19 May 1996 14:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous226.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.226]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA23336; Sun, 19 May 1996 23:04:19 +0200 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id WAA02026; Sun, 19 May 1996 22:16:50 +0200 Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 22:16:50 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199605192016.WAA02026@campa.panke.de> To: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: Tushar Patel , kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Login name longer then 8 character? In-Reply-To: <199605162317.BAA02650@vector.jhs.no_domain> References: <199605152032.UAA13583@ecpi.com> <199605162317.BAA02650@vector.jhs.no_domain> Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Julian H. Stacey writes: >Perhaps whoever wrote the adduser 8 char limit knew there are or I was it ;-) >at least were also passwd 8 char limits in FreeBSD, > (as to version I can't tell you, but I did hit such a limit a few months > back, on a machine kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de knows of) > >so before you read & change the source to adduser, >go & do some direct tests with passwd etc. libc depend on UT_NAMESIZE (8 chars) and MAXLOGNAME (12 chars). man setlogin [...] BUGS Login names are limited in length by setlogin(). However, lower limits are placed on login names elsewhere in the system (UT_NAMESIZE in ). Wolfram