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Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:45:04 -0800
To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
Subject: Re: Long User name problem
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> > > >
> > > >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?
> > >
> > > Yeah, well, thats the problem. :) We have other systems that work 
> just fine
> > > with long user names. One particular system does not. What exactly do 
> you
> > > want me to show you?
> > >
> > Please fix any line breaks or obvious errors:
> >
> > echo 'bobbyjoelongname::62424:62424::0:0:Bigass \
> > Username:/nonexistent:/bin/csh' >> /etc/master.passwd
> > pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
> > su bobbyjoelongname
> > whoami
> > who
> > w
> > exit
> > last | head -1
> >

Well, crap. It appears LOGINS work. I swear it didn't when I posted that 
message. Oh well. The main problem seems to be FTP logins to not work. If I 
change it to the standard FTP server it does, but wu-ftpd which is the FTP 
we use does not. I guess I should try recompiling wu-ftpd first, and go 
from there. The cd command also does not work suchj as cd 
~longusernamehere. Email with long user names seem to be working ok.




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