From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 23 19:17:16 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA23496 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 19:17:16 -0800 Received: from bigdipper.umd.edu (bigdipper.umd.edu [128.8.220.139]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA23489 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 19:17:10 -0800 Received: (from adhir@localhost) by bigdipper.umd.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id WAA19785; Thu, 23 Feb 1995 22:16:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 22:16:37 -0500 (EST) From: "Alok K. Dhir" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Username checking in ftp Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all - In FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, I have a user named "voluntee". The username would have been "volunteer", but FreeBSD does not allow greater than 8 character user names. This isn't a big deal, however, since while logging in with telnet, the name "volunteer" works anyway, apparently ignoring the last character. FTP, however, when trying to log in as "volunteer" does not accept it. It will only work when logging in as "voluntee". Is this a bug or a feature? Also, is there any way around this? Thanks... -------------------------------------___--------------------------------- | Al Dhir, Programmer Analyst /___\ UMCP Ag-Engineering Dept | | Internet: adhir@bigdipper.umd.edu (o o) (301) 405-1197 | ---------------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-----------------------------