From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 10 18:11:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE6937B891 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-129.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.129] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA03723; Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:11:55 +1100 From: Danny To: Doug Barton , Shawn Ramsey Subject: Re: Long User name problem Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 13:13:06 +1100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38C8A12A.980AF60B@gorean.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00031213141301.00323@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG HEllo, I thought From FreeBSD 3.3 onwards it supported 16 characters in the username. I am wondering if you can show me the username you are having problems adding? looking forward to your feedback. dannyh dannyh@idx.comau On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > 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 -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message