From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 11 11:13:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA28642 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:13:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dreamlabs.dreaming.org (dreamlabs.dreaming.org [206.116.10.25]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA28637 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from shyone@localhost) by dreamlabs.dreaming.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) id OAA01473; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:12:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:12:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Engineer, 08.ZIYA" X-Sender: shyone@dreamlabs.dreaming.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: usernames greater than 8 characters Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there any way to increase the length of the login field of the password file to greater than 8 characters, or is it that pretty much the maximum possible? I'd like to be able to squeeze about 10 or even 12 in there (i'm assuming there is a good reason why adduser currently limits me to 8 chars by default). -Mit %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % ShyOne | Mitayai % % Reality Engineer | Project Co-ordinator % % Arcturia Three | DreamLabs % % shyone@constantchange.on.ca | mitayai@dreaming.org % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%