From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 4 03:23:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA19318 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 03:23:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (news.alcatel.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA19313 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 03:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id NAA14561; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:21:36 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id MAA28858; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:21:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA16060; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:05:46 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10238; Fri, 4 Dec 98 12:10:03 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA156959350; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 12:02:30 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 98 11:46:00 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3667BBCF.14947B41@cyrix.com> Subject: username too long Mime-Version: 1.0 To: garner@cyrix.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="username" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="username" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > > I am attemting to add some users to a FreeBSD box but > I am having problems with some of the usernames that > are more than eight charactes. Is there anyway to > enable longer usernames? One way is to upgrade to 3.0 TfH > > Having all of these people change their usernames > isn't really an option. > > Thanks for your help. > Stephen Garner > > -- > > ************************************************************** > Stephen Garner Phone: (972) 968-8489 > UNIX System Administrator FAX: (972) 968-8888 > Cyrix Corporation Email: garner@cyrix.com > P.O. Box 853916, MS 310 > Richardon, TX 75085-3916 > ************************************************************** > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message