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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2002 11:22:38 -0600 (CST)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@imach.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: long (16 character) usernames.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0201241117480.75291-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0201240343040.29086-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>

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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Forrest W. Christian wrote:

> Since we finally got rid of our last Solaris box, I've been
> considering permitting our users to be able to use longer than 8
> character names - specifically up to the 16 character FreeBSD
> default.
>
> Has anyone else on here tried this?  What problems did you run in
> to?

I've been using up to 16-character names on my FreeBSD mail server for
about three years now.  I've not encountered any problems.

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