From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 22 8:30:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F297A150AF for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id BAA24782; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:30:18 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36F66FBA.46EA776D@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:28:42 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Schwartz Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login ID max length References: <199903221558.JAA17602@sierrahill.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From 3.x on, the user id maximum length is 16. This can be changed in the source code, of course, but I think anyone trying is likely to forget something or other... :-) Joe Schwartz wrote: > > Folks, > > This is on release 3.1. > > What is the maximum length for a login ID. I thought it > was 8 characters ... but just installed majordomo and > realized after I'd done the 'adduser' that it was 9 > characters ... and I can login as mojordomo. > > I have just created users on this machine which were on an > NT server where some had longer than 8 characters. > > Could I have created these long user ID's without truncating > at 8 characters? > > Thanks, > > Joe Schwartz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What happened?" "It moved, sir!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message