From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 20: 9:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from digitaldaemon.com (digitaldaemon.com [63.105.9.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A929237B479 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 20:09:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 45193 invoked from network); 9 Nov 2000 04:07:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smartsoft.cc) (192.168.0.73) by digitaldaemon.com with SMTP; 9 Nov 2000 04:07:17 -0000 Message-ID: <3A0A22D6.BEFE7751@smartsoft.cc> Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 23:06:46 -0500 From: Jan Knepper Organization: Smartsoft, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Arthur Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Username length References: <000e01c049d5$cf4d8680$86391ecb@argay.com.au> Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

A couple of questions please. 1. I have an urgent need to have username greater than 8 characters. Any advice please. I am using FreeBSd 2.2.6, but am close to upgrading to 4.1.1 stable.

What do you need them for?
If it is e-mail, move to qmail http://www.qmail.org/ instead of sendmail...
Than you don't have to have your users in /etc/passwd either!

2. With the upgrade I installed 4.0 from the Cd's then ran CVSUP for the 4.1.1 upgrade and all ports. I am unable to follow what to do nest, the base directory is /usr, however there is no files in /usr/src. Any help greatly appreciated Arthur

Read the UPDATING in /usr/src
You will hage to make world and build a kernel etc.

Don't worry, be Kneppie!
Jan

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