Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:17:58 -0700 (PDT) From: brian@mediacity.com To: Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl (Jos Vissers) Cc: michael@memra.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <19961017021758.1671.qmail@mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <199610080912.LAA32726@monet.telebyte.nl> from Jos Vissers at "Oct 8, 96 11:12:10 am"
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> Michael Dillon wrote: > > How about having the traditional 8 char limit on usernames but modify > > adduser to automatically prompt for an email alias when adding new users. > > Have the email alias automatically added to a userdb and have sendmail > > already configured to do lookups in this userdb. > Jos Vissers wrote: > We already have sendmail looking in a userdb for mail aliases and shadow > domains but some users just can't be made to understand that their > username is not the same as their email address. > Besides, we are migrating from Linux to FreeBSD and because Linux does > allow long usernames we already have exisiting "long users". > > But increasing UT_NAMESIZE followed by a make world does appear to > have worked. Now all I have to do is patch up who and w and the likes > to make the output a bit more convenient. > L_cuserid in stdio.h looks sort of suspicious too. -- Brian Litzinger Powered by FreeBSD <brian@mediacity.com> http[s]://www.mpress.com speakfree.mpress.com [use -t (GSM)] How to program in c++: //
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