From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:36:22 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 EDA4037B401 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:36:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71D7743E65 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:36:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stealth215@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com ([24.128.40.215]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021021013619.BQXV26524.sccrmhc01.attbi.com@attbi.com>; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:36:19 +0000 Message-ID: <3DB366EE.2050207@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:31:10 -0500 From: David Loszewski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: netboss@cyberport.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User name length References: <5.1.1.6.2.20021020192629.03e69d78@mail.cyberport.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20021020192629.03e69d78@mail.cyberport.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16 character names is and has been the limit. 8 characters is playing it safe, where there may be some programs that won't accept more than that but I believe it is only the older programs that you will find a problem with that. For and program that is current 16 characters should be no problem. Dave netboss@cyberport.net wrote: > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message