Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:24:58 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "faisal gillani" <fasi_74@yahoo.com>, "FreeBSD" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: unix password limit Message-ID: <016e01c1a25d$7f4c0030$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20020121050622.15838.qmail@web11005.mail.yahoo.com>
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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
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