From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 19 15:15:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13010 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (mail-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA13005 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:15:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dt5h1n61.san.rr.com (dt5h1n61.san.rr.com [204.210.31.97]) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA16435 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709192214.PAA16435@mail.san.rr.com> From: "Studded" To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Date: Fri, 19 Sep 97 15:14:20 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:44:56 -0400, Rob Miracle wrote: >What about something really useful, like 4 byte UIDs? I'm not in a position to comment on the usefulness/possibility of doing that. I have seen numerous requests for longer user names on the -questions list, so I *am* in a position to say that this is an oft-requested feature, and from what I've seen would not be too difficult to implement. Also, as tom@uniserve.com already stated quite well, you run out of usable (humanly) usernames with only 8 chars available long before you run out of UID's. While I'm askin', it would be nice if some chars besides letters and numbers could sneak in there too. The one I would like most is - (the dash) but I know there are other requests. (And yes, I know about aliases. :) Thanks for your input, Doug Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"