From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 19 06:42:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA12406 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 06:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.aus.sig.net (austin.sig.net [199.1.78.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA12400 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 06:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from austin.aus.sig.net (austin.sig.net [199.1.78.2]) by austin.aus.sig.net (8.8.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA29583; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:39:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:39:27 -0500 (CDT) From: Thad Smith X-Sender: tsmith@austin.aus.sig.net To: John Brown cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Username Alias In-Reply-To: <199709181935.0000015F@intra.vafibre.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, John Brown wrote: > I want to allow my users to be able to use longer usernames but am limited > (as I was told earlier in this group). So is their a way to assign aliases > to user login names? Check out the file /etc/aliases. In this file you can create aliases under the format alias_name: user_name Where you decide the alias_name and point it to the user_name. You can alse do multiple user names (seperated by a ,) and some other cool stuff. After saving the file type 'newaliases' at the command prompt. Thad > (This may be a stupid question but I'm sure that I'm not the only FreeBSD > user that has had this need) > > Thanks > > > ___________________"We make the Internet work."___________________ Thad Smith tsmith@sig.net Technical Support helpdesk@sig.net SigNet Partners Inc. http://www.sig.net 512.306.0700 800.396.5158 fax: 512.306.0702 Tell us what you think; use the reply form at the address above! __________________________________________________________________