From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:27:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA6F37B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:27:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web1.cyberport.net (web1.cyberport.net [63.162.213.109]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E3543E97 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:27:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netboss@cyberport.net) Received: from GARYSNEWACER.cyberport.net (ptn130.cyberport.net [63.163.36.130]) by web1.cyberport.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA27805 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:29:08 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from netboss@cyberport.net) From: netboss@cyberport.net Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20021020192629.03e69d78@mail.cyberport.net> X-Sender: gfb@mail.cyberport.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:26:35 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: User name length Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The most recent releases of FreeBSD appear to support user names of up to 16 characters. However, the documentation and man pages are confusing on the issue. In some places reference is made to 16 character user names, in others it is implied or outright stated that the limit is 8 characters. Can anyone shed some light on this matter? Is is safe to use 16 character user names? Do all of the utilities and/or ports support the longer user names? Are there caveats associated with using 16 character user names? Any input will be appreciated. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message