From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 24 13:51:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17833 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oncomdis.on.ca (pstewart@unix.kawartha.com [204.101.15.2] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17810 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 13:51:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca) Received: from localhost (pstewart@localhost) by oncomdis.on.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA05671; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:49:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 16:49:12 -0500 (EST) From: pstewart To: Doug White 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 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