Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: misc/4818: usernames are limited to 8 characters Message-ID: <199710210700.AAA24396@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/4818; it has been noted by GNATS. From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: rdm@cfcl.com Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/4818: usernames are limited to 8 characters Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:21:39 +0200 As rdm@cfcl.com wrote: > FreeBSD does not handle usernames of nine (9) characters or more. Oh, your information is rather out of date. FreeBSD-current used to handle them for quite some time, and it was a deliberate decision to not make this the default in FreeBSD-2.2-stable. You gotta turn it on there yourself if you prefer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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