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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:59:01 -0400
From:      Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, forrie@tiac.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: conf/6377
Message-ID:  <19980422145901.A10643@rtfm.net>
In-Reply-To: <199804212225.PAA02705@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 03:25:10PM -0700
References:  <199804212225.PAA02705@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 03:25:10PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Synopsis: setlogin needs to be updated.
> 
> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> State-Changed-By: jkh
> State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 21 15:24:19 PDT 1998
> State-Changed-Why: 
> This is not a bug - the maximum login name is very clearly 8 characters
> in 2.2.6 - see UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/include/utmp.h.
> 
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Have there been any problems with the 16-character usernames in
-current? Isn't the philosophy to test it in -current and if there
are no problems, to merge it into -stable? It's been in -current
for quite a while; people keep saying "Real Admins(tm) use 8-char
usernames and like it" but there's no reason to keep them from 
people who'd like them if they're not causing trouble.
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