From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 0:41: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B756B37B7A4 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:41:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from shawn (shawn.megadeth.org [192.216.87.244]) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA52149; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:41:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000309003701.025ca8f0@mail.cpl.net> X-Sender: megadeth@mail.cpl.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 00:40:47 -0800 To: Chris Phillips From: Shawn Ramsey Subject: Re: Long User name problem Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000308232830.00aa8550@shell.selkie.org> References: <4.2.0.58.20000308230156.023807d0@mail.cpl.net> <38C73874.EB136CF7@gorean.org> <4.2.0.58.20000308140036.02474be8@mail.cpl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:28 PM 3/8/2000 -0800, Chris Phillips wrote: >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. Yes, this is what I did. It still does not work if the user is longer than 8 characters. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message