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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

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