From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 1:25: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E65137B41C for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 01:25:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0L9OvO03042; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:24:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <016e01c1a25d$7f4c0030$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "faisal gillani" , "FreeBSD" References: <20020121050622.15838.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: unix password limit Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:24:58 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Faisal writes: > Unix has a limit on username which is 8 > chareaters right ? All UNIX systems will accept _at least_ eight characters, but some will accept more. The FreeBSD handbook says that user names on FreeBSD should be limited to eight characters. > ... but i have seen unix systems taking a > lot more then that .. how do we make it do > that can someone tell me please ? Even if you have a UNIX system that will accept more than eight characters in a user name, it isn't always a good idea to exceed that length, because many programs may break if they encounter user names longer than eight characters. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message