Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 14:31:15 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: randyk@ccsales.ccsales.com (Randy Katz) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login Name Length Message-ID: <199601240401.OAA25587@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960123080958.5775A-100000@ccsales.ccsales.com> from "Randy Katz" at Jan 23, 96 08:11:14 am
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Randy Katz stands accused of saying: > > What limits the length of user logins to 8 characters and how might this > be changed? We need 15 or more. Change UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/include and rebuild the entire system. This won't work if you use YP/NIS, and other packages may break. 8 characters is a long-time Unix restriction. > RAK -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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