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Date:      Thu, 16 May 1996 15:07:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Login name longer then 8 character?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.960516150503.24469j-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199605161648.SAA01836@campa.panke.de>

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On Thu, 16 May 1996, Wolfram Schneider wrote:

> In short words: DO NOT USE USER LOGIN NAMES LARGER THAN 8 CHARACTERS.

But long email addresses are OK. Put stuff like

webmaster:         webmast
al-khowarizmi:     ak

in /etc/aliases and run newaliases
Nobody but you and al-khowarizmi need to know that his login 
account ID is ak.

Michael Dillon                                    Voice: +1-604-546-8022
Memra Software Inc.                                 Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com                             E-mail: michael@memra.com




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