From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 3 20:58:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23987 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 20:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from seidata.com (ns1.seidata.com [208.10.211.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23957 for ; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 20:57:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@seidata.com) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by seidata.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA22245; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 23:57:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 23:57:41 -0500 (EST) From: Mike 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: > Does anyone know how I can allow usernames longer than 8 chars? I suppose you could create the accounts with valid 8char ids and then setup /etc/virtusertable to allow all of the >8char ids to work. So if you setup a valid account called 'user' and you want mail sent to 'superlongusername' to go to the 'user' account, you would put the following in /etc/virtusertable: superlongusername@yourdomain user@yourdomain Then you would just do a 'makemap hash /etc/virtusertable < /etc/virtusertable' to create a .db file for sendmail. You may need to restart the sendmail daemon for the changes to take affect. Just an idea... and I'm sure you'll get 10-20 more that are better before this reaches you... that's the beauty of this list. :) --- Mike Hoskins Kettering University SEI Data Network Services, Inc. CS/CE Dual-Major Program mike@seidata.com hosk0094@kettering.edu http://www.seidata.com http://www.kettering.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message