From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 1 06:10:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA14574 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 06:10:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA14568 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 06:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from panke.panke.de (anonymous214.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.214]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.8.6/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22835; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 15:08:44 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wosch@localhost) by panke.panke.de (8.8.5/8.6.12) id NAA00538; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 13:55:30 +0100 (MET) To: freebsd@phoenix.aldhfn.org (Skip Watson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long login names References: <259ea977.u8t20e.8e6b1-freebsd@phoenix.aldhfn.org> From: Wolfram Schneider Date: 01 Jan 1998 13:55:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: freebsd@phoenix.aldhfn.org's message of Thu, 1 Jan 98 00:51:09 EST Message-ID: Lines: 8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk freebsd@phoenix.aldhfn.org (Skip Watson) writes: > I thought that I had read (rather some time ago) that long login > names were usable. Is it true? For FreeBSD 3.0-current yes, for FreeBSD 2.2.x no. -- Wolfram Schneider http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/