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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Longer usernames?
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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