Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:20:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: pstewart <pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Username Lengths Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224121915.26338G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980223150631.9905A-100000@oncomdis.on.ca>
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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, pstewart wrote: > On a few of our linux systems we run usernames UP to 24 characters in > length and have yet to have a problem with anything such as sendmail, > ftpd, etc. etc... > > Can someone briefly outline how to increase the username length in > FreeBSD? This is complex; you have to modify user apps as well (xdm comes to mind) and rebuild everything. -CURRENT currently has support for long usernames. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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