From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 7 0:51:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sucuri.amazon.com.br (sucuri.amazon.com.br [200.241.240.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15BE2152AC for ; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aldrin@americasnet.com) Received: from athome.logicStudios.org (root@pm3-s05.amazon.com.br [200.242.245.38]) by sucuri.amazon.com.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA16485; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 04:49:03 -0300 Received: from athome.logicStudios.org (aldrin@athome.logicStudios.org [10.0.0.1]) by athome.logicStudios.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA00517; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 04:57:39 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from aldrin@americasnet.com) Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 04:57:38 -0300 (EST) From: Aldrin L X-Sender: aldrin@athome.logicStudios.org To: "Paul D. Schmidt" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/passwd limits In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Paul D. Schmidt wrote: > thanks :) Just a small mistake: FreeBSD, among other unixen, tries to limit the userid to 8 chars. I don't know where this restriction came from, but i think you should obey. Linux doesn't have. But linux is not unix. :] done, Aldrin Leal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message