From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 8 23:31:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shell.selkie.org (cr296652-a.crdva1.bc.wave.home.com [24.115.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBEE37B732 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Received: from chris (chris.selkie.org [192.168.0.2]) by shell.selkie.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA42316; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:27:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@selkie.org) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000308232830.00aa8550@shell.selkie.org> X-Sender: chris@shell.selkie.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:28:30 -0800 To: Shawn Ramsey From: Chris Phillips Subject: Re: Long User name problem Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000308230156.023807d0@mail.cpl.net> References: <38C73874.EB136CF7@gorean.org> <4.2.0.58.20000308140036.02474be8@mail.cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:12 PM 3/8/00 -0800, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >At 09:36 PM 3/8/2000 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: >>Shawn Ramsey wrote: >> > >> > I am having trouble with long user names. I am able to add users with up to >> > 16 chars (3.4-STABLE) >> >> How did you add them? > >With adduser, and I tried manually. Putting user in /etc/master.passwd, >creating directory. > > If you must add a user manually, use vipw. -Chris Phillips To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message