From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 1 12:10: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.kohtz.com (christy.kohtz.com [204.62.193.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421281536F for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 12:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrew@kohtz.com) Received: from neptune.kohtz.com (neptune.kohtz.com [204.62.193.108]) by neptune.kohtz.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13307; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:13:19 -0700 (MST) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:13:18 -0700 (MST) From: Andy Kohtz To: Chris Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: usernames longer than 8 characters In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Chris wrote: > Andy- > > It looks like, on a FreeBSD 3.1-Release box, you can create usernames as > long as 16 characters... :) > > This is such a joy for me, since we had to hack around 2.2.5 source to > allow 11 characters :/ what a bitch.. :) > Chris, and everyone, The box will in fact be a 3.1-Release system. I remember hearing about so many of the nightmares that people had to use the hacks to make it allow longer than 8 characters on 2.2.x systems. I didn't even think to look if 3.1 had solved the problem altogether. I guess it just gives me another reason that my favorite OS just got better. :-) Thank you for your responses. - Andrew Kohtz - akohtz@amug.org - andrew@kohtz.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message