From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 12:59:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B44FE15219 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:59:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00359; Wed, 12 May 1999 12:59:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:59:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Stefan Schoenberger Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Maximum login name length > 8 ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 May 1999, Stefan Schoenberger wrote: > I got a problem with long login names (>8 characters) with > FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE and applications like Cyrus IMAP4 server > (that is: the shadow password daemon 'pwcheck') and also Samba 2.0.2. > They report a password error when the login name is longer than 8 > characters. I built the Cyrus server from scratch out of the /usr/ports > directory but the error remains. I shouldn't forget to say that I recently > upgraded the system from FreeBSD-2.2.8 to FreeBSD-3.1. Did I miss > something? Did you rebuild imap? On 2.2.8 the username limit is 8. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message