From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 19:17:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA23673 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail001.mediacity.com (mail001.mediacity.com [206.24.105.68]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA23654 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:17:38 -0700 (PDT) From: brian@mediacity.com Received: (qmail-queue invoked from smtpd); 17 Oct 1996 02:17:39 -0000 Received: from home001.mediacity.com (HELO mediacity.com) (206.24.105.66) by mail001.mediacity.com with SMTP; 17 Oct 1996 02:17:39 -0000 Received: (qmail-queue invoked by uid 100); 17 Oct 1996 02:17:59 -0000 Message-ID: <19961017021758.1671.qmail@mediacity.com> Subject: Re: User name length limit increase To: Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl (Jos Vissers) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:17:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: michael@memra.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199610080912.LAA32726@monet.telebyte.nl> from Jos Vissers at "Oct 8, 96 11:12:10 am" Reply-To: brian@mediacity.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 http[s]://www.mpress.com speakfree.mpress.com [use -t (GSM)] How to program in c++: //