From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 21:11:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (www.transbay.net [209.133.53.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45A4437B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from transbay.net (rigel.transbay.net [209.133.53.177]) by transbay.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g0M5Bfh64096; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:11:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C4CF63D.98510AF0@transbay.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:18:53 -0800 From: UCTC Sysadmin Organization: UC Telecommunications Company X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Larssen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long user names References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The SQL DB thing is the only quick and easy way. Not too hard to do. Leave it to marketing types to equate userid = emailaddress. That has the sideeffect of confusing users, since ISPs will tell users that email addresses are NOT the same as userids. Sincerely, Fred disGUSting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message