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Date:      Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:16:05 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Marc Evans <marc@destek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getpwent() question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811191615050.1722-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199811192214.RAA15930@synergy.destek.net>

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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Marc Evans wrote:

> Hello -
> 
> I am working with a customer that we would like to move over to using
> FreeBSD for e-mail purposes (amoung other things). Part of what we have to
> deal with here is that there a re several thousand users with greater then
> UT_NAMESIZE login names. Having the users change these names is not an
> option. Therefore, I have started looking at the sources to determine if
> they may be able to be changed to address this limitation.

3.0 supports longer filenames, but 3.0 isn't engineered for a production
environment.  You may want to upgrade to a CURRENT from November 13 or so
and see if that works for you.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | www.freebsd.org


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