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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 12:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Stefan Schoenberger <sschoen@wee.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Maximum login name length > 8 ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905121259100.23756-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.00.9905071454340.25010-100000@mailhub.hs.wee.de>

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On Fri, 7 May 1999, Stefan Schoenberger wrote:

> I got a problem with long login names (>8 characters) with
> FreeBSD-3.1-RELEASE and applications like Cyrus IMAP4 server 
> (that is: the shadow password daemon 'pwcheck') and also Samba 2.0.2.
> They report a password error when the login name is longer than 8
> characters. I built the Cyrus server from scratch out of the /usr/ports
> directory but the error remains. I shouldn't forget to say that I recently
> upgraded the system from FreeBSD-2.2.8 to FreeBSD-3.1. Did I miss
> something?

Did you rebuild imap?  On 2.2.8 the username limit is 8.

Doug White                               
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