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Subject: Are there any plans to increase the username length?
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Hi

Looks like FreeBSD one of the few modern OS which have the maximum
length of username less than 255.

Windows: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc783323.aspx  (255)
Linux: getconf LOGIN_NAME_MAX = 256
MacOSX: getconf LOGIN_NAME_MAX = 255
FreeBSD: getconf LOGIN_NAME_MAX = 17

Any plan to catch up with other OSes?