From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 24 21:50:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id VAA02668 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:50:51 -0800 Received: from witch.witchcraft.com (witch.witchcraft.com [198.30.130.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA02662 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 21:50:47 -0800 Received: from warlock.win.net by witch.witchcraft.com id AA23411 (5.65/1.35 for ); Wed, 25 Jan 95 00:50:17 -0500 Received: by warlock.win.net (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA00494; Wed, 25 Jan 95 00:48:41 EST From: bugs@warlock.win.net (Mark Hittinger) Message-Id: <9501250548.AA00494@warlock.win.net> Subject: Usernames > 8 chars To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 00:48:33 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 806 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi - I am in the process of converting some machines to FreeBSD platforms. Having a bunch of fun but among the little annoyances was the discovery that FreeBSD limits usernames to 8 characters. The machines that I am converting are in some cases using 9 and 10 character usernames. I've hunted down all the modules that I think I need to change. Some of the symbols are like "UT_NAMESIZE" ect. Does anyone have any words of wisdom for me about what I might break if I proceed to stretch this field out two more bytes? :-) As part of the "less limits" nature of the BSD4.4 I am surprised that this one is still there. I know that various other ancient warez such as uucp ect may have trouble with longer usernames but the installed base seems to accept up to 10. thanks mark.h bugs@win.net