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Subject: Re: longer usernames 
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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:59:31 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> It would appear it support 16 charector limits right now on my stock
> 2.2.1r boxes.  I haven't tested it though.

Uh, no. ;-)

If you look at /usr/include/utmp.h, you'll see it's still 8 characters.

I'm not sure if we'll go to longer usernames in the 2.2 branch because
it would be a big transition headache for everyone, but it's certainly
there in 3.0 (which will already probably be a transition headache for
different reasons, so it doesn't really matter :-)

					Jordan