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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Subject: Re: misc/4818: usernames are limited to 8 characters
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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 Oh, your information is rather out of date.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.
 
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 cheers, J"org
 
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