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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 "Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:06:24 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:50:56 -0400
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Tom wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.96.970921180522.3677B-100000@shell.uniserve.com>:
> > root@mail0:/# wc -l /etc/passwd
> >   274200 /etc/passwd

>   And I really doubt that you're limited to 8 characters usernames on such
> a system.

Our systems were not upgraded to handle more than 8 char logins until
relatively recently (i.e. last month or so). What chanes were needed
is unknown as I wasn't involved. 

Gary
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Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
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