From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 17:36:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA28734 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:36:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA28717 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:36:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA03629; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:35:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:35:28 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username sizes character limits. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello again everyone. > Someone who asked me to possibley host their website, had a question > that I really didn't know the entire answer too. I am hoping that > someone more experienced than myself might be able to clear something up > for me. > This person wants to move their website to my host. They informed me > that on the site they are currently on, they are using twc-online as > their user name. I found this a bit strange for a number of reasons. > First, the standard unix limit for user names is 8 characters. Of > course, twc-online is 10 characters. I then learned that if one changes > UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/include/utmp.h this limit can be overridden. But, I > have also been reading that this is not a good idea, due to certain You can also have a login id, and e-mail address. They arnt necesarily the same. Sendmail can be hacked to do "Virtual Domains" or whatever you want to call it. I don't know what the limit is on characters, but it definitly isnt 8.