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John,

The maximum login length supported under FreeBSD is 8 characters.  I
believe (someone correct me if I'm wrong) FreeBSD 3.0 will be able to
handle 12 characters.  Until then, take a look at Alias.

Eddie

John Brown wrote:

>  Is there a place that I can change the maximum length of user names?