Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:49:12 -0500 (EST) From: pstewart <pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Username Lengths Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980224164821.5632A-100000@oncomdis.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224121915.26338G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Does this mean that if I install the latest version that I won't have any headaches and can just convert over our users from our linux boxes? BTW, does anyone know of a simple utility that will read a shadowed password file from a linux box and convert it to users on a freebsd box including autocreating /home directories etc. etc...? Thanks, Paul -- Out the modem, through the SPARC, down the T3, off the router, past the frame-relay... nothing but Net. On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Doug White wrote: > 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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