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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Longer usernames?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.93.960619231432.12022B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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  What is the general consensus on usernames longer than 8 chars?  I've
been doing some testing on a -stable system with 16 character usernames,
and everything seems to work ok.

  Also, I recently noticed that BSDI 2.1 supports 16 character usernames
too (UT_NAMESIZE is 16).  This means that BSDI 2.1 bins that access wtmp,
utmp, etc will not work under FreeBSD.

Tom
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