Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:17:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919141426.20289A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19970919164456.0081b100@central.TanSoft.COM>
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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
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