From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 12:21:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA29242 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA29219 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:20:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA26372; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:20:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:20:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: pstewart cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Username Lengths In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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