From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 3 08:16:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22535 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 08:16:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22486 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 08:15:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 0yL8jb-0003tT-00; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:50:27 -0800 Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:50:27 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Steven Fletcher cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 8 char username limitations In-Reply-To: <3529de82.72495505@mailhost.shellnet.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Steven Fletcher wrote: > The NT machines have been acting as POP3 email servers for years now, > with usernames such as "joebloggs-pickup". The idea is that we can > simply swap the machine IP's over, and no-one's mail will need ... > Does anyone know how I can allow usernames longer than 8 chars? Does everyone have the "-pickup" suffix? It would be a simple mod to qpopper to strip such a suffix. The next part of the solution is do a "make world" with username set to 16 characters. > TIA, > > -Steven Fletcher (steven@shellnet.co.uk) Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message