From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 22 13:38:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23247 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23207 for ; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:38:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25346; Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:36:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: help_me@sapphire.rajabhat.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to use ID login more than 8 Character? In-Reply-To: <360769BD.4F98B71D@sapphire.rajabhat.edu> 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 Tue, 22 Sep 1998, root wrote: > I 'm very happy to use FreeBSD but I have any question about login name. > When I see many websites. I don't know why they can use login name more > than 8 character but i can't do on my FreeBSD system. Please tell me > that how can i do that. They use a separate authentication database from the standard password file. If you want to have longer than 8 character login usernames, you'll have to wait for 3.0. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message