From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 21 18:03:43 1997 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable> Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA29257 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:03:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA29252 for <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id VAA29439; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id VAA07192; Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:03:37 -0400 (EDT) To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> cc: Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 Sep 1997 14:17:20 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919141426.20289A-100000@shell.uniserve.com> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:03:36 -0400 Message-ID: <7190.874890216@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom wrote in message ID <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919141426.20289A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>: > Really useful? Like who has over 65,000 users in /etc/passwd anyhow? root@mail0:/# wc -l /etc/passwd 274200 /etc/passwd ahem Unfortunately not a FreeBSD box ... I don't think there are any PC's with the sort of hardware that machine needs (8 processors, 2gigs ram, etc) Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info