From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 24 15:46:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from draco.over-yonder.net (draco.over-yonder.net [198.78.58.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855A837B400 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:46:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by draco.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 0C40AFC2; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:46:55 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:46:55 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: "Forrest W. Christian" Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long (16 character) usernames. Message-ID: <20020124174654.F2760@over-yonder.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5-fullermd.1i In-Reply-To: ; from forrestc@imach.com on Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:44:33AM -0700 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:44:33AM -0700 I heard the voice of Forrest W. Christian, and lo! it spake thus: > 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 run 16-char usernames for longer than they've been supported in released versions :-) I always patched my 2.2.* systems to allow up to 16-char; worked fine them, and I haven't even thought about it since I moved the production systems to 4.x (never ran 3.x in core systems in production much). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Unix Systems Administrator | fullermd@futuresouth.com Specializing in FreeBSD | http://www.over-yonder.net/ "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message