From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 9 23:16: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B274137B958 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:16:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA49183; Thu, 9 Mar 2000 23:15:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38C8A12A.980AF60B@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 23:15:54 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0307 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long User name problem References: <4.2.0.58.20000308140036.02474be8@mail.cpl.net> <4.2.0.58.20000308230156.023807d0@mail.cpl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > At 09:36 PM 3/8/2000 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > >Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > > > > I am having trouble with long user names. I am able to add users with up to > > > 16 chars (3.4-STABLE) > > > > How did you add them? > > With adduser, and I tried manually. Putting user in /etc/master.passwd, > creating directory. Hmm... I just added a 16 character username to my 3.4-Stable system. I can log in, do normal system functions, etc. who and w both show the correct output, I can send mail, su, etc. Not sure what else to tell you... Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message