From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 19 14:17:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA09401 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.uniserve.com (dns1-van.uniserve.com [204.244.163.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA09396 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:17:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.uniserve.com [204.244.210.252] by mail.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0xCAQW-0002Fe-00; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:17:24 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom To: Rob Miracle cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970919164456.0081b100@central.TanSoft.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Rob Miracle wrote: > > Better than that, I've been hand patching 2.2-stable for some time now > >to support longer usernames > > >> Doug (who would really like to see this done :) > > What about something really useful, like 4 byte UIDs? Really useful? Like who has over 65,000 users in /etc/passwd anyhow? Besides, once you get over 65K users, long usernames will be even more important because the namespace will rather congested. I have 13007 users on one server, and namespace problems are already quite severe with 8 character usernames. > Rob Tom